How to Use italicize in a Sentence

italicize

verb
  • The five songs that saw a decrease in streaming totals are italicized.
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2019
  • That should count, underlined and italicized in bold.
    — Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The fun for me was to invent a story for her that could italicize Hart’s story.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The first of which is the ability, finally, to italicize and bold text.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Davis wrote in his report, italicizing the words for emphasis.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
  • De Los does not normally italicize Spanish words in our copy.
    — J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • At times, her approach can be a tad too emphatic, the singer italicizing seemingly very gesture.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Text will also be able to be bolded, italicized and visually amplified.
    — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
  • This will only lead to negative consequences both for the rest and italicize Hamas and its leadership.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The c is lower-case and italicized, as per the scientific notation for quickly light can move in a vacuum.
    — Laura Hudson, The Verge, 19 May 2018
  • In one, a creamy pale yellow, the vessels appear slightly italicized by Wagner's oblique angle of view.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Jon Balke’s score is a spare accompaniment that knows when to italicize the unease and when to color in the serenity.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The droplets visually italicize Williams’s wheelbarrow, bringing a lowly piece of hardware to the foreground.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Incumbent candidates are italicized with their party affiliation noted next to their name.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The juxtaposition of death with spring lushness italicizes the ordinariness of life cycles.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 6 May 2017
  • The play, similarly, italicizes its themes, most of which are bluntly realized on Kawecki’s set that manages to be both busily semaphoric and strikingly inert.
    — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • With the savage ironies of the Rondo-Burlesque, Salonen saw no need to italicize the bitter humor that Mahler makes perfectly clear on the page.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • The ensemble recreates the communal energy of the characters, though sometimes what’s italicized in the script might have been more potently conveyed with underplaying.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The finale had power aplenty, but delicacy, too, with none of the hell-for-leather histrionics that conductors often use to italicize the young Beethoven's sense of derring-do and adventure.
    — Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The Messages app can now bold or italicize text, and users can now react to messages using emojis instead of the previously available options, which included a question mark, exclamation point, heart and thumbs-up.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The coronavirus crisis has italicized the horrifying costs (measured in actual deaths) of the president’s contempt for science and expertise and the government agencies meant to handle such emergencies.
    — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • And the notes that accompany the sermons in outline form are strikingly similar to those Bickle provided for years, even down to the practice of boldfacing, italicizing and underlining certain points.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Hosted by actor Boris Kodjoe, the event italicized the contributions Black women have made in film and television — particularly this year, but also across eras and generations.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Participants are asked to create their models in Excel and they’re also expected to follow industry norms for formatting the models, including for areas like margin sizes and italicizing percentages.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In a startlingly modern conception, the negative space of Claudel’s abrupt amputation exposes — and italicizes — the human body’s dense, inescapable physicality.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024

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