How to Use memorialize in a Sentence
memorialize
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The catch was so clutch, coach Mitch Canham said, the Beavers would have find a way to memorialize it.
— Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2022 -
In 1826, artist Charles de Steuben set forth to memorialize Napoleon’s life in a painting.
— María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023 -
In the wake of her death, much of the Glee cast has gathered to memorialize her, both online and in real life.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2021 -
And shelves of glass jars, filled with soil from across the South, an effort to memorialize those lost to lynching.
— Susan Glaser, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2021 -
Murphy's name was memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery.
— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 June 2024 -
But that’s the kind of thing the world will have to take in now largely from bits posted online or memorialized on tape and film.
— Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023 -
The database acts as a way to memorialize the movement — even the quick swipes of graffiti on the sides of closed buildings.
— BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021 -
Now his friend’s name is among those memorialized at the World Trade Center.
— Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024 -
His celebration was memorialized with a statue, with his leg in the air and fist thrust in the sky.
— Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023 -
The 9/11 victims are memorialized at the site of the former World Trade Center towers.
— USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the 2001 attacks.
— Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2023 -
The phase where nurses stamp tiny hands and feet into clay to memorialize unmet hopes and dreams.
— Rachel Fleishman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023 -
That's a lot of loss—and a lot of powerful legacies to memorialize.
— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2022 -
If the site is landmarked, it can be used to memorialize the rich Black history of New York City.
— Ramisa Rob, NBC News, 19 July 2022 -
The city is determined to put a name to every one of those who died and memorialize them with a monument.
— Liz Sly, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022 -
They were memorialized with a bronze plaque in the old Enquirer Building on Vine Street.
— Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 29 May 2023 -
Who better to memorialize him than the actress who worked alongside him for more than 40 years?
— Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022 -
Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed on Sept. 11.
— Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023 -
The Times has famously fought with the White House, as memorialized in a Politico story.
— Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 8 July 2024 -
Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the later attack.
— Jennifer Peltz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023 -
The chatbot was meant to memorialize him and to create a unique companion.
— Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2022 -
The feat, memorialized by a statue in New York’s Central Park and books and movies, preserved the sled dog’s place among the world’s most famous animals.
— Mark Johnson and Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023 -
On June 6, Biden will travel to Normandy, France, to memorialize an event that has served for eight decades as a focal point of this vision.
— Massimo Calabresi / Washington, TIME, 4 June 2024 -
But all will remember her, and many will memorialize her through memes.
— Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022 -
Along the same wall are two gavels, one of which is in a display case, memorializing the passage of the American Rescue Plan.
— Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023 -
Sometimes gangsters paid singers to memorialize them with a song.
— Wire Services, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Fresh flowers rest in front of marker to memorialize George Floyd, and a few people were milling around in reflection.
— Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 20 Apr. 2021 -
Shapley, in contrast, memorialized his takeaways from the meeting in notes and an email later that day.
— Jacqueline Alemany and Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023 -
After Dark was created last year as a means of memorializing the genre movies routinely lost to streaming.
— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024 -
In her home, Jenny has dedicated a room to memorialize her late son, with photos from his childhood and working in construction.
— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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