How to Use valorize in a Sentence

valorize

verb

• But rather than valorize Brown, the show demeaned both of them.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 1 Jan. 2023
• To what end would an author valorize fact inside of a work of fiction?
  — Jennifer Krasinski, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
• While many are mourning Neely, others are valorizing the man who killed him.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
• Risk-takers who valorize failure — as long as someone else is footing the bill.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• There are faintly fascistic undertones in the form Calvin Klein valorizes.
  — Soraya Roberts, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• But a curious thing has happened in the half-century since his death — those who opposed him now valorize him.
  — Jemar Tisby, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2018
• But Charlie’s connection to the theater is meant as the opposite of satire; it’s not deployed to belittle but to valorize.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019
• Gypsy Rose Blanchard is far from the first criminal, alleged or otherwise, to be valorized as a folk hero on the internet.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2024
• The Gaines’s brand often seems to valorize aspects of traditional gender roles.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 July 2021
• But to indulge in the lavish fantasy world Drake inhabits is to valorize the history and come up that preceded it.
  — Dylan Green, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• Her downbeat side has been too much stressed, maybe due to a general tendency among writers to valorize the darker byways of modernism.
  — Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024
• Her downbeat side has been too much stressed, maybe due to a general tendency among writers to valorize the darker byways of modernism.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• To indulge in the lavish fantasy world Drake inhabits is to valorize the history and come up that preceded it.
  — Dylan Green, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• The industry that contributed to Germinio’s early demise would help valorize him.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 14 May 2020
• Certainly the effort to valorize unglamorous lives is worthy.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• The rigor and refinement of her method means that care must be taken with the claim that her victory also serves to valorize the popular current trend of autofiction.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
• Far from being confined to cops and courts, the Mann Act was a presence in popular culture, with its enforcers valorized in wildly popular films and cheap magazines.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• The four-star hotel has 116 rooms and suites conceived by Jean-Philippe Nuel, the French designer reputed for his hotel projects that valorize historical heritage.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• This valorizes and increases our expertise with every client.
  — Sheraz Ahmed, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Those pieces of the story, added over time, served a purpose, like all martyrdom narratives serve a purpose: to valorize the fallen and coalesce support and obedience among those left behind.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Jan. 2022
• Such an argument presupposes that the show’s lens is meritocratic, too, in ways that align with and valorize Logan’s success.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• Renner brings in celebrity friends like Vanessa Hudgens and Anthony Mackie to amp up the glitz, but the series’ spotlight feels better used on craftspeople whose talents aren’t valorized nearly as often.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2023
• At the Grammys, maturity is rewarded, and often demanded, putting it at direct odds with a music business that continues to valorize youth.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• In a process now familiar, it was transformed, not by real-estate speculation—at the start, bankers and developers wanted no part of these buildings—but by the arrival of white artists and idealistic leftists who valorized integration.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• Americans tend to valorize being driven and ambitious, so letting work take over virtually every moment of your life is concerningly easy.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2021
• Where therapy leads to self-knowledge, and religion offers grace, motivation valorizes success.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• The Spanish state codified the process and ingredients to regulate the quality and geographic origins of Idiazabal cheese, a strategy to valorize this local product in the larger market place.
  — Michael Atwood Mason, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
• The Spanish state codified the process and ingredients to regulate the quality and geographic origins of Idiazabal cheese, a strategy to valorize this local product in the larger market place.
  — Michael Atwood Mason, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
• The image underscores the innocence that precedes masculine bravado, and then deflates the very idea of heroism itself, a daring idea in a society that uses the word reflexively and often indiscriminately to valorize state power.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• Too many companies valorize truly unhealthy working conditions — 70-80 hours a week, perpetual availability, late hours, weekends given over to work urgencies, the complete erasure of boundaries.
  — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024