How to Use memorialize in a Sentence

memorialize

verb
  • 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
  • Consider ways to memorialize this loss in a way that feels right for both of you.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • No one will deny the need to acknowledge and memorialize the tragic death of George Floyd.
    Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • After Dark was created last year as a means of memorializing the genre movies routinely lost to streaming.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Many attendees stopped on their way into the event to light candles and view an exhibit by Koren memorializing the attacks.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024

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