How to Use objectify in a Sentence

objectify

verb

• She says beauty pageants objectify women.
• The whole point of the book was to turn the male gaze on its head and be the one looking out at the world — the female gaze — not being objectified by it.
  — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 24 July 2019
• For adding yourself to the list of men who have objectified me, or made my body a crime scene, or made my body their prey?
  — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 8 Mar. 2017
• The forms in which women project and objectify their fears ought to have the chance to scare the bejeezus out of us as often as those of men do.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• There is never a sense that Ramona or any of the dancers at the club are being objectified.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2019
• Where the men fragmented the female body to objectify it, the women, like Belanger, worked with more of a wink.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2020
• Wolff doesn't like the idea of women standing by merely to be objectified.
  — Jona Kallgren, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
• Earlier this year, the singer was objectified on Twitter when a picture of her chest surfaced on the site.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 16 Sep. 2019
• And for decades, that beauty standard has been warped and objectified by commercial forces outside of the home.
  — Christine Michel Carter, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2018
• Indeed, both husband and wife try to play good cop with Aisha at the other’s expense, and both objectify and take advantage of her.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• Women have been objectified for millennia and this city has played its part.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• His remarks to Parker as well as the others are objectifying and the types of comments that make women feel less than human.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 26 May 2018
• The problem arises only when the woman being objectified has no choice in the matter.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• The work didn’t sit well with feminists, who accused Mr. Brakhage of objectifying his wife.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• There are a million ways to be nice to people without objectifying them.
  — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• The show can't be seen to be poking fun at prostitutes, nor can it be seen to be objectifying them, and certainly not shaming them.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• And the men get objectified in a tame, schoolyard way, with Perry playing a Mae West-ish caricature.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 28 Mar. 2018
• No matter that my novel dealt with the myriad ways women and girls are objectified, I was asked to lie on any number of surfaces to be photographed.
  — Emma Cline, The Cut, 18 Oct. 2017
• Here was a chance to talk about the raw power and skill of one of the most competent sportswomen in history—to respect her game—and instead people were objectifying her.
  — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 19 July 2023
• And many of the female leads have been raped, serially abused, objectified, or a wicked combination of such.
  — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 8 May 2019
• But when the President of the United States openly objectifies women, what once cut begins to grate dully.
  — Chaya Babu, CNN, 13 June 2017
• Rather, the issue lies in a woman’s lack of agency when being objectified by another.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• And Marvel chose to tackle this issue by turning it on its head and objectifying a male character.
  — Jenna Pearl, Marie Claire, 5 June 2017
• Like pickup artists, high value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high value partner as the prize.
  — Eve Upton-Clark, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• Like pickup artists, high-value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high-value partner as the prize.
  — Eve Upton-Clark, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2022
• The women in Bad Tourists are tired: tired of the patriarchy, tired of being objectified because of their gender, tired that #MeToo lumbers on without radical change.
  — Caro Carver, Peoplemag, 4 July 2024
• While women have long been - and still are - objectified for their looks and appearance, that is a serious but different topic.
  — Liz Bentley /, NBC News, 1 June 2018
• Late last month saw the publication of All the President’s Women, an in-depth exploration of Trump’s tendency to objectify the women who cross his path.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2019
• And while Playboy did lend a sheen of acceptability to overt sexuality, the truth is that women found means to leverage the way men objectified them long before the brand came along.
  — Jessica Valenti, Marie Claire, 28 Sep. 2017
• This event is typically looked back at as a moment when men got to freely objectify, sexualize, and often harass women on the streets, yet there are two women at the center of the production.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024