How to Use dramatize in a Sentence

dramatize

verb
  • The book is dramatized in a new play.
  • The movie dramatizes her early life.
  • This tragedy dramatizes the need for improvements in highway safety.
  • She cited a series of statistics to dramatize the seriousness of the problem.
  • I know I tend to dramatize things but it really was awful.
  • The rest of the episode would dramatize the story for the viewers.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Both shows dramatize real events from the 1990s that made for great TV at the time, and both make for great TV in their own right.
    David Klion, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • So right from the get-go, our goal was to take the idea of infinity and dramatize it.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The clock was created in 1945 to dramatize the atomic bomb’s danger to the world.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • That’s the latest twist in the Hollywood I.P. gambit: Help build the myth, then dramatize the fall.
    New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • So on Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
    Alan Feuer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • So Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
    Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The Guardian’s story dramatizes and misstates the facts of what occurred.
    Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The film dramatizes the true crime story chronicled in author David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But a very turbulent journey, which is sure to be dramatized in seasons three and four of The Crown.
    Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 5 Nov. 2019
  • This isn't the first time the family has been accused of dramatizing events in their lives.
    Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2019
  • As if to dramatize the entire point of the campaign, that year, Walton’s landlord forced her out of her Lemon Street rental.
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The photo was captured in Palm Springs, where a new play dramatizes how people of color lost their haven in the desert.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
  • The film dramatizes the tragic story of the Von Erich family.
    Jake Coyle, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Hulu will dramatize one of the most talked about criminal cases of the past few years.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Romeo and Juliet has always been a play in which Shakespeare tries to dramatize love.
    Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 24 Apr. 2021
  • What a strange and daring thing for the great and greatly missed Sondheim to dramatize, and for Friedman to forefront.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That gives you the best of history to work with and the latitude to dramatize and make up your own storyline.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Michelle O’Neill’s accession to office as the leader of the largest party in the assembly dramatizes the end of that project.
    Amy Cassidy, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Now a new film, aptly tiled Bombshell, is dramatizing the story and bringing it to the big screen.
    Julyssa Lopez, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Lawrence knew, too, how to use color and cropped vectors (fists, swords, guns) to dramatize every square inch.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Solo singers and grouped voices do not dramatize text but rather take it to other realms.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Curls and coils were dramatized, creating the ultimate sky high updos to be seen all over the red carpets and in the streets this fall.
    Shalwah Evans, Essence, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The chaos can be heard in terrified voices on 911 calls and dramatized in dispatch logs.
    AZCentral.com, 23 July 2019
  • The show dramatizes the high-profile murders and the trial that followed, but Erik has criticized the series’s portrayal of events.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024

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