How to Use dramatize in a Sentence

dramatize

verb
  • The book is dramatized in a new play.
  • The movie dramatizes her early life.
  • This tragedy dramatizes the need for improvements in highway safety.
  • She cited a series of statistics to dramatize the seriousness of the problem.
  • I know I tend to dramatize things but it really was awful.
  • What the series dramatizes is the lead-up to that fall.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The core of the scheme is true, but the numbers are dramatized.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The rest of the episode would dramatize the story for the viewers.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2019
  • There was a church on site, although this moment in the film was dramatized.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • My goal here, as always, is to dramatize this story.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • That person has never been dramatized in any of these stories at all.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • So right from the get-go, our goal was to take the idea of infinity and dramatize it.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2022
  • And as wild and dramatized as that sounds, that's exactly what happened.
    — Alexis Jones, Marie Claire, 10 May 2019
  • Hulu will dramatize one of the most talked about criminal cases of the past few years.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
  • This isn't the first time the family has been accused of dramatizing events in their lives.
    — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 8 May 2019
  • Lawrence knew, too, how to use color and cropped vectors (fists, swords, guns) to dramatize every square inch.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The film dramatized the events and starred Judd Nelson as Hunt.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
  • So on Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
    — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • There’s no better way to dramatize the best of human achievement than that painting.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • So Thursday, the committee sought to dramatize the stakes of its work.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But everything about it has been enhanced and dramatized.
    — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025
  • After the Hunt dramatizes a lot of the questions that have been asked in the last 10 years.
    — Fred Topel, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The unusual sci-fi novel dramatizes a story about an ant colony in a park near Paris.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The Guardian’s story dramatizes and misstates the facts of what occurred.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Romeo and Juliet has always been a play in which Shakespeare tries to dramatize love.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 24 Apr. 2021
  • That was a play which, in the first act, dramatized this famous Victorian song.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Well, there’s a ton of music still on the table to be used, dramatized, and propelled back onto the streaming charts.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
  • That gives you the best of history to work with and the latitude to dramatize and make up your own storyline.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
  • It was meant to dramatize the suffering of the marginalized in a way that the powerful could not ignore.
    — Mika Edmondson, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Ridiculous and over-dramatized?
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2026

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