How to Use nationalize in a Sentence

nationalize

verb
  • The government nationalized the health-care system in the mid-1950s.
  • Surveys prove this country does not want to take voting away from the states to be nationalized.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Leftists are the ones who want to nationalize things like health care and the energy sector.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Trump wants to see voting nationalized.
    — Ray Lewis, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Why does Trump want to nationalize elections?
    — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2026
  • On the campaign trail, Sanders proudly nationalized her run for state office.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
  • For her part, Brown and her allies have tried to nationalize the race a bit more by focusing on those past comments.
    — cleveland, 24 July 2021
  • Most of his reforms seemed to shrink the role of field offices and nationalize operations.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Now, in a world where governments are nationalizing wages and public services just to keep their economies afloat, such claims no longer seem far-fetched.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020
  • And the more a race is nationalized, the more that race can tell us about voters' moods going into November.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Although Ohio is far from the border in question, the issue has been nationalized to great effect.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • There is an inside baseball legal dispute over whether the law requires his consent to nationalize the Guard or not.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
  • There also has been a push to re-nationalize the collection that once belonged to a Soviet artists’ trade union.
    — Nataliya Vasilyeva, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The action stemmed from Venezuela’s decision to nationalize foreign oil assets a decade ago.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • But on Tuesday, Congress held a hearing to consider more than a dozen bills to nationalize the rules of the road.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 29 June 2017
  • Either Tinkov’s stake would be sold and his name scrubbed from the brand, or the bank—then one of Russia’s largest lenders—would be nationalized.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The threat is so acute that the government made plans to nationalize the business, known as Gazprom Energy.
    — Rachel Morison, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Tran, who had gotten work at Shell Oil upon moving home, was laid off when the company was nationalized by the new regime.
    — Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The push to nationalize election oversight is a solution in search of a problem that would only create a single point of failure.
    — Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Exxon left Venezuela in 2007 when the Chavez regime nationalized the oil industry.
    — Flora Charner, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
  • For Republicans who’ve been working to nationalize their races all along, the impeachment news couldn’t have come at a better time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The new ad is the latest sign that Republicans are looking to nationalize the governor's race.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Rivers said the two spoke about the differences in private and nationalized health care and how the case was being covered in the mainstream media and on social media.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The oil industry was nationalized when Chávez first took power and has been subject to US sanctions.
    — Flora Charner, CNN Money, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Castro nationalized their land in 1961.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • Telegraph and telephone systems, along with wireless and radio stations, were also nationalized.
    — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • While making a name for himself, Pedro caught the eye of Chavez himself — and the late president promised to support bids to nationalize the sport.
    — Natalie Keyssar, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Its woes threatened in 2016 to spread to other Italian lenders; it was nationalized earlier this year.
    — Deborah Ball, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The bloody 1980s war with Iraq saw Iran further nationalize its economy.
    — Nasser Karmi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2020
  • The second involves recent public comments made by the president that elections should be nationalized in 15 states.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026

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