How to Use humanize in a Sentence

humanize

verb

• They promised to humanize conditions at the company.
• The new publicity has helped to humanize the corporation's image.
• The iron canopy bed from RH helps humanize the scale of the room.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• The baddie has to have something humanizing in him, and the hero has to have some flaws.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• Getting down on the floor with a dog humanizes the politician.
  — Betsy Klein, CNN, 21 Oct. 2017
• So embrace your unique voice and use it as a tool to build trust and humanize your brand.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Catherine doesn’t know how to make the nobles humanize the serfs.
  — Alice Burton, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
• Strater says one of the primary goals of @UFWUpdates is to humanize and to give a voice to the farmworkers.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• George Floyd's girlfriend took the stand to humanize him and give depth to his life story.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2021
• The flaws are part of the man, and Eig sees humanizing King as a crucial mission.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• For instance, the gang of kids helps humanize the conflict and show that Doan left Zeon to protect and care for them.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Our goal is not to glamorize it, but to try and humanize it.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 1 June 2022
• It's humanized them, to an extent, but also kept them on a pedestal at the same time, if that makes sense.
  — Robert Morast, Houston Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2017
• My job was to humanize the data — to go out and tell the stories of the people living with what the data shows.
  — Libby Peterson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2020
• Still, our desire to humanize the cosmos, to find meaning in the chaos of the stars, seems to be permanent.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• And his love-hate rapport with the hero of the show, Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan, is the heart and soul of the show, humanizing both of them.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
• The Vietnam War humanizes the conflict almost to a fault.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Bringing in Jake was a way to humanize Bell and to make the season all about family for him.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• The movie clearly wants to humanize this former figure of ridicule, but can’t seem to find the dimensions or the means to do it.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Those charged with taking care of the widget try to humanize it, but the system constrains them.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
• Huseman fell back on job figures and dollar signs, but there wasn’t enough to humanize the project.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2020
• The scene somehow humanizes Joel, while still making your heart break for Midge.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2018
• That means the conversations can humanize Trump and Vance, rather than focusing on the news of the day.
  — Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
• About his role, Mitchell previously teased how the show will humanize the Tiger King.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2022
• On the other hand, this episode does humanize Jeffrey Dahmer more than any up to this point.
  — Carita Rizzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• These behind-the-scenes glimpses build trust and help humanize my brand, Cleppe of OneStop Northwest, shared.
  — Edward Segal, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• The podcast offers up some of these numbers while humanizing them with the person on the screen.
  — Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
• But what's brilliant is to humanize that, to build a whole character around the concept.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• Nor did the instinct to humanize Fifth Avenue, which in the past 70 years has mostly grown inhospitable to movement that isn’t on four wheels.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
• For CMOs, this reinforces the idea that humor, when aligned with cultural awareness, can humanize a brand and increase its relatability.
  — Lilian Raji, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024