How to Use memorialize in a Sentence

memorialize

verb
  • The face of the past comes to look like the faces of those who memorialize it.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Posters were made to memorialize it.
    — The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Consider ways to memorialize this loss in a way that feels right for both of you.
    — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Consider ways to memorialize this loss in a way that feels right for both of you.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Consider ways to memorialize this loss in a way that feels right for both of you.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2021
  • But what about those who prefer to be memorialized on a more cosmic scale?
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • The band memorialized Hawkins at the show.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • But what if a local folk song memorializes how the victims died?
    — Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Some of the deer’s fans are attempting to memorialize it with a plaque.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • But how the site will be memorialized is still up for discussion.
    — Bobby Caina Calvan, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2019
  • But how the site will be memorialized is still up for discussion.
    — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
  • But there were any number of songs about those victims and trying to memorialize them in song.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The phase where nurses stamp tiny hands and feet into clay to memorialize unmet hopes and dreams.
    — Rachel Fleishman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Three helmets were staked in the ground next to the Grenada booth to memorialize them.
    — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 27 May 2018
  • That's a lot of loss—and a lot of powerful legacies to memorialize.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The back of the shirt memorialized the names of the Parkland victims.
    — Jillian Ruffo, PEOPLE.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • And Clemens turned in a season for the ages, one Texas fans will memorialize for years.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2018
  • The names and dates are memorialized in marker on the bucket's cover.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Some of the older ones memorialize settlers who were born in the other sister city and died here.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • His celebration was memorialized with a statue, with his leg in the air and fist thrust in the sky.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • But that’s the kind of thing the world will have to take in now largely from bits posted online or memorialized on tape and film.
    — Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023
  • And shelves of glass jars, filled with soil from across the South, an effort to memorialize those lost to lynching.
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The will to memorialize each and every moment.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • But only one of them felt moved to memorialize the King in an elegiac poem.
    — Kim Willis, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The late royal has also been memorialized in pop culture.
    — Stephanie Kaloi, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The city is determined to put a name to every one of those who died and memorialize them with a monument.
    — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • So how else will Trump be memorialized if not for Mount Rushmore?
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Ezekiel memorialized the fall of Jerusalem by building a model of the city and lying down next to it for over a year.
    — Rachel Held Evans, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • In the wake of her death, much of the Glee cast has gathered to memorialize her, both online and in real life.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Who better to memorialize him than the actress who worked alongside him for more than 40 years?
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022

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