How to Use mythologize in a Sentence

mythologize

verb

• Please don’t mythologize the lifestyle of someone who is lost and in pain.
  — Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
• At the mouth of the Boyne, there are two Neolithic standing stones (mythologized as a cow and her beloved calf).
  — Jane Smiley, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
• Most venture capital firms mythologize the Zucks and Musks of the world.
  — Tom Chavez, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Corrine’s wasn’t one of the ugly houses mythologized in the company’s ads.
  — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
• Cooper is, in many ways, one of the last icons of an art world that has been mythologized as smaller, smarter, more authentic and less concerned with profit.
  — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Funny, nobody seemed to mind the classic Lakers-Celtics battles of the 1980s, which now are almost mythologized.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
• Rasputin’s death, as well as the mass murder of the entire Romanov family, has been heavily mythologized over the years.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
• Weimar Germany is an easy era to mythologize, and Babylon Berlin isn’t coy about getting in on the mythologizing.
  — Adrian Daub, New Republic, 14 Feb. 2018
• The Civil War, followed by the country’s centennial in 1876, helped mythologize the flag.
  — Hillel Italie, Fortune, 4 July 2023
• Your interview style has been mythologized for your refusal to impose yourself in an exchange.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
• The four monuments mythologized the Lost Cause, a war of revolt against the federal government, and a 19th-century wave of white terrorism.
  — Guest Columnist, NOLA.com, 19 May 2017
• Where Gevers had mythologized himself as visionary thought leader, the report presented a long list of odd, dead-end projects.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• There’s a lot of mythologizing out there that claims Trump is some kind of Teflon figure who isn’t hurt by the various scandals and controversies surrounding him.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 22 Aug. 2018
• Workplaces everywhere are struggling to find the sweet spot between productivity and having a good time, and there’s a lot of mythologizing the notion of fun.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 3 June 2018
• Her voyages mingle with sketches of writers like Boris Pilnyak and Vladimir Nabokov, which explore these artists’ lifelong work of self-mythologizing.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• NFL Films, a catalyst in mythologizing pro football, produces more than 1,000 hours of programming per year.
  — SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Golf loves nothing more than upholding its self-mythologizing virtue.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 18 Apr. 2018
• Around the world, there are early signs that some of the emergency measures Wall Street is rolling out to keep employees safe in a pandemic will become a lasting practice in an industry that’s long mythologized the handshake.
  — Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
• Burkard’s story was a good one, burnished by only a little self-mythologizing nostalgia.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Treacherous mountain ascents like Everest have long been mythologized by men.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
• Long mythologized as a land of promise and plenty, the West is here reclaimed as a zone of uncertainty, danger and profound scarcity, where the myth of Manifest Destiny is eclipsed, and even mocked, by hard reality.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2020
• His father tended a large garden, while his artistic mother—a pretty blond woman of Austrian descent, whom Rhoades mythologized in his work—designed booths for county fairs and put on dress-up shows in the barn.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2017
• Forty years later, a backwoods hunter from Kentucky who grew up in a log cabin won the presidency, in part by mythologizing his own origins on the frontier in terms of the natural aristocracy of the common man.
  — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
• Fans of Lynch -- and fans of the series, who have mythologized its idiosyncratic details over the last two decades -- will take in the director's vision with open arms, savoring its bizarre iconography and nonlinear storytelling.
  — Sonia Saraiya, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
• While many young stars who have died from drug abuse became mythologized, stuck in an immortal fast lane, Fisher laid out the much more ragged and tedious reality of a constant struggle that millions of Americans fight.
  — Richard Winton, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2017
• Several decades in the future that incident has been mythologized in Chinese culture and becomes the source material for a beloved East-West musical in China.
  — Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• Rockefeller’s speech has been mythologized in an era where conventions have become little more than infomercials.
  — Marsha E. Barrett / Made By History, TIME, 15 July 2024
• Schrader delights in mythologizing his own wanton dereliction of self-care.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 9 May 2024
• That seems to be exactly what Orange is doing: homing in, documentary-like, on the details, using fiction as a camera that sees and records without mythologizing.
  — Chelsea Leu, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2018
• Trashed by her enemies and malevolently mythologized in history, de’ Medici is often seen today as the personification of evil.
  — Dave Kindy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024