How to Use romanticize in a Sentence
romanticize
verb- We were romanticizing about the past.
- He has romanticized notions of army life.
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Of course not to romanticize autism or say that people should have autism.
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Kk Ottesen,
Washington Post,
27 Dec. 2021
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Break the routine, switch up the vibes and romanticize your life.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
21 May 2026
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Writers love to romanticize the pain of their craft.
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Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Sam wrote it in a way and shot it in a way that does not romanticize drugs — at least, not for me, anyway.
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Mónica Marie Zorrilla,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2022
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Yeah, people romanticize the grit and the dirt.
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Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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But he was romanticized even (barely) in his time and much thereafter.
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Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2024
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This is your cue to romanticize your own life, Scorpio.
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Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
2 Nov. 2025
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That said, his matter-of-factness may well help to ground a show that tends to over-romanticize.
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Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
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That was true in the past that Heatherwick romanticizes, too.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
23 Oct. 2023
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And in its day, the movie did well, but we were criticized for romanticizing the time.
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Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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There is, in all of this, a temptation to romanticize what came before.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
21 Mar. 2023
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The twilight zone frequency of the city is easy to romanticize.
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Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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Dufu was careful not to romanticize this shift.
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Alli Kushner,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Okamoto echoes these challenges and is not one to romanticize the whole farm-to-table movement.
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Ali Francis,
Bon Appetit,
24 Apr. 2017
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In some of the footage, the filmmakers have strewn apples around the house in tableaux that almost romanticize the place.
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Nina Metz,
chicagotribune.com,
3 May 2017
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None of this is meant to romanticize the Tenderloin in its current state.
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Ryan Kost,
SFChronicle.com,
12 July 2020
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Hats off to the filmmakers for not pulling punches and romanticizing this city’s past.
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David Zurawik,
baltimoresun.com,
4 Aug. 2017
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Sussman writes that figs and grapes have been romanticized in Jewish texts since ancient times.
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Sheryl Julian,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Sep. 2023
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Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer.
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cleveland,
30 Dec. 2021
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Though winter brings shorter days and frosty weather, a trip to the slopes has a way of romanticizing the season.
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Mecca Pryor,
Essence,
8 Jan. 2026
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But colleges have never mimicked the real world, which is why so many people romanticize them.
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Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
11 Sep. 2025
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What was true about farms is true about the factories and mills that Americans romanticize to this day.
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John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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These invasions get romanticized as elite fandom, as the epitome of love for the game.
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Marcus Thompson Ii,
New York Times,
13 June 2026
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Even restaurants that align themselves with the farm-to-table movement can be just as guilty of romanticizing farm life.
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Soleil Ho,
SFChronicle.com,
9 Sep. 2019
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Getting swept away in the rush of attraction, or romanticizing people/projects that look shiny but lack depth.
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Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
12 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, Patel romanticizes her services to the advancement of her own ends.
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Nora Caplan-Bricker,
The New Republic,
4 June 2019
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Those in and out of the Big Apple tend to romanticize New York.
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Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
10 Sep. 2024
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Burnout was romanticized, and ambition was wrapped in excess.
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Dasha Shunina,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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