How to Use fetishize in a Sentence

fetishize

verb
  • Women who don't shave or wax their body hair don't need to be fetishized.
    — Health.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The point is not to fetishize a single metric.
    — Noosheen Hashemi, Time, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Has this led me to fetishize my own ignorance over the years?
    — Jon Raymond august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The show doesn’t fetishize but also doesn’t avoid talking about process.
    — Seph Rodney, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • This isn’t about fetishizing offal.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Cameron took many gun scenes out of his later projects, out of concern for fetishizing weapons.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 26 Dec. 2025
  • At no point during the car’s launch event did anyone mention, fetishize, or enthuse about speed.
    — Alex Goy, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Part of the problem might have been how a certain sort of scientific thinking can be fetishized.
    — Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The camera fetishizes their bikes and their yearning to belong as much as the characters do themselves.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But if local journalism is content to fête and fetishize white supremacy, the law is not quite so sanguine.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Pretty clearly, now is the moment to learn how to fetishize stability.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • And at the vendor expo, where guns, scopes and silencers are displayed like jewelry, weapons of war are fetishized.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Jean Genet, Serge Gainsbourg—if only to fetishize the margins.
    — Lauren Elkin, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Existing and fetishizing the act of being offline.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past few years, the hottest trend on social media seems to be fetishizing being turned into a woodland creature.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
  • In this view, fetishizing the tools of the trade is a sterile, even masturbatory, approach.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • After all, in a culture that fetishizes guns, video games surely cannot be excluded as a factor in gun violence?
    — David Dupee, Fortune, 2 May 2023
  • And Moore’s performance seemed to nod to her own image, and her past, as an object of lust, both fetishized and scolded for her form.
    — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • To fetishize the martial spirit, however, would miss the broader effort feeding it.
    — Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For that reason, Chicago chefs—and food writers—tend to fetishize street food more than their counterparts in other cities.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
  • His fight scenes are often too chaotic, and one scene fetishizes violence so much that Quentin Tarantino might blanch.
    — Kristen Page-Kirby, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
  • People fetishized girl-on-girl kisses and relegated them to the realm of Katy Perry songs.
    — Julie Depenbrock, NPR, 22 June 2024
  • Rock is often thought to fetishize youth, but few rock artists at their peak rushed headlong into middle age the way Tom Petty did.
    — Steve Kandell, GQ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The black zero had proved its worth and became fetishized by the CDU, quite literally.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2019
  • And a commentator on Twitter noted an in-game ad that seems to creepily fetishize trans women.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 14 June 2019
  • Unlike the masculine tradition invoked in the lecture, this book does not fetishize the refusal of beauty.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Frances has found success with her documentary, also called Flat Earth, which fetishizes the flyover states.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Frances has found success with her documentary, also called Flat Earth, which fetishizes the flyover states.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Bit by bit and then all at once, the concept of leaving one’s spouse has become, for women, almost fetishized—a rite of passage on the way to meeting one’s true self.
    — Tara Ellison, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The role reflected a growing vocal segment of those who fetishize plus-size women, something Imani is not sure can lead to true inclusion.
    — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 28 Oct. 2021

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