How to Use sexualize in a Sentence
sexualize
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We have all been sexualized, even as children and girls.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
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Monáe is still working at that task, but thing are much looser and more sexualized now.
—Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
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To be very clear: the real predators here are the perverts who are sexualizing kids.
—Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 23 Mar. 2024
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Which brings me onto the final point: What has any of this got to do with sexualizing children?
—Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Oct. 2019
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Along the way, the foursome is still wrestling with the toxicity of how they were sexualized and treated in their youth.
—Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
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Band was one of the few places on campus where our daughter never felt sexualized or pressured to drink.
—Rose Chan Loui., The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
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No co-star there to sexualize the moment, no moaning, no hair tossing.
—Glamour, 3 May 2018
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The female gaze doesn’t only have to be on men, or not sexualizing women.
—Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2020
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The contrast is rare enough to feel refreshing, and the nudity in the script isn’t sexualizing the characters.
—Shana O'Neil, The Verge, 24 July 2019
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There’s a history of being exoticized, fetishized and sexualized, but through a white male point of view.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
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My fiancée should be able to wear a bathing suit without being sexualized and demeaned.
—Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2017
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Femme-enfant is a common term applied to women in his work—part childlike guide to the world of dreams, part hyper-sexualized being.
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
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Wilkinson admits she was sexualized at a young age, even before the mansion.
—Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
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The agenda has swung so far left in an attempt to sexualize our precious children that parents are fighting back.
—Fox News, 7 Apr. 2022
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Mayer was accused time and time again of being guilty of sexualizing children, instead of the dress being the culprit.
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 6 Mar. 2024
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That is a long way from being in favor of sexualizing children.
—Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 3 July 2023
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The circus acts that bookend the story are weirdly sexualized.
—J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
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Most of the young women of Euphoria are sexualized from the jump, given little initial backstory but plenty of screen time to hook up.
—Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
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These sisters are doing so well in their careers only for Vogue to sexualize a sibling relationship in the most creepy and non-artistic way.
—Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 31 Jan. 2018
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Some argue the spots helped expand Patrick’s brand by sexualizing her and using her appearance as a selling point.
—Jenna Fryer, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
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Many have suggested that men invented heels to sexualize women and hold us back.
—Chloe Malle, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
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There is a history of black women because of their bodies being sexualized and that’s what appears to be happening to me.
—Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
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Amazon Prime In pop culture, sexualized priests are usually campy punchlines to bawdy jokes.
—Dana Schwartz, Marie Claire, 17 May 2019
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This does not mean that Lensa AI's tendencies to sexualize female subjects don't exist.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2022
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Schneider also argued that the jokes on his sets were approved and meant to make children laugh, not sexualize them or make actors uncomfortable.
—Zoe Guy, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2024
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Women’s experiences of policing in the war on drugs are thus highly gendered and sexualized.
—Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
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The blog has also sexualized her last name by adding a third X and has insinuated that members of her family are connected to gangs.
—Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
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In fact, it was being recreated right in front of us as people took selfies that mocked the Sugar Sphinx, sexualized her, and humiliated her.
—Longreads, 28 Feb. 2018
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These acts of violence are a response to right-wing claims that drag performers are sexualizing and grooming children.
—Cassidy George, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
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Nike's unveiling of this year's U.S. women's track and field uniforms reignited criticism over designs that sexualize female athletes.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024
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