How to Use mythologize in a Sentence

mythologize

verb
  • Please don’t mythologize the lifestyle of someone who is lost and in pain.
    — Dan Koeppel, Outside Online, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Nearly eighty years later, Montour was still being mythologized in the same way.
    — Katrina Gulliver, JSTOR Daily, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Most venture capital firms mythologize the Zucks and Musks of the world.
    — Tom Chavez, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Golf loves nothing more than upholding its self-mythologizing virtue.
    — Chris Chase, For The Win, 18 Apr. 2018
  • At the mouth of the Boyne, there are two Neolithic standing stones (mythologized as a cow and her beloved calf).
    — Jane Smiley, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2016
  • Corrine’s wasn’t one of the ugly houses mythologized in the company’s ads.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
  • Your interview style has been mythologized for your refusal to impose yourself in an exchange.
    — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
  • Cooper is, in many ways, one of the last icons of an art world that has been mythologized as smaller, smarter, more authentic and less concerned with profit.
    — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Treacherous mountain ascents like Everest have long been mythologized by men.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
  • Burkard’s story was a good one, burnished by only a little self-mythologizing nostalgia.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • He’s been mythologized almost to the point of dehumanization.
    — Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2025
  • For four decades, Alice nurtured Gertrude’s self-mythologizing.
    — Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Rasputin’s death, as well as the mass murder of the entire Romanov family, has been heavily mythologized over the years.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Decades of mythologizing have flattened Frida Kahlo.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 15 June 2026
  • Elle Fanning’s beachy bob features tight and gentle waves from crown to ends, resulting in a moment worthy of mythologizing.
    — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 27 May 2026
  • By the time the work finally reached readers, the writer was a countercultural icon, and his past had been mythologized enough to give the story context.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Where Gevers had mythologized himself as visionary thought leader, the report presented a long list of odd, dead-end projects.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • Weimar Germany is an easy era to mythologize, and Babylon Berlin isn’t coy about getting in on the mythologizing.
    — Adrian Daub, New Republic, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Then, after World War II, Route 66 came to mythologize the postwar boom.
    — Daniel Milowski, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
  • Workplaces everywhere are struggling to find the sweet spot between productivity and having a good time, and there’s a lot of mythologizing the notion of fun.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 3 June 2018
  • His management of the state during the pandemic has been mythologized by conservatives, who often claim that his policies lured more right-leaning voters to the state in search of freedom.
    — Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The Village Matters Entrepreneurship is often mythologized as a solo act.
    — Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Miuccia Prada is much mythologized within the industry and by its surrounding circles.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 4 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a lot of mythologizing out there that claims Trump is some kind of Teflon figure who isn’t hurt by the various scandals and controversies surrounding him.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 22 Aug. 2018
  • King, widely mythologized today, was viewed unfavorably by more than two-thirds of Americans in 1966.
    — Samantha Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Funny, nobody seemed to mind the classic Lakers-Celtics battles of the 1980s, which now are almost mythologized.
    — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
  • The predator, long thought extinct and famously mythologized in pop culture like Game of Thrones, is back, thanks to genetic engineering.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The 1950s, mythologized by the New Right in its push for a more traditional social and economic order, were not an idyll.
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The Civil War, followed by the country’s centennial in 1876, helped mythologize the flag.
    — Hillel Italie, Fortune, 4 July 2023
  • Her voyages mingle with sketches of writers like Boris Pilnyak and Vladimir Nabokov, which explore these artists’ lifelong work of self-mythologizing.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018

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