How to Use sexualize in a Sentence

sexualize

verb
  • The parts that were once sexualized by the male gaze are warped and placed on the head.
    — Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Monáe is still working at that task, but thing are much looser and more sexualized now.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • They were designed for comfort rather than allure, or to sexualize the body.
    — Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • No co-star there to sexualize the moment, no moaning, no hair tossing.
    — Glamour, 3 May 2018
  • Band was one of the few places on campus where our daughter never felt sexualized or pressured to drink.
    — Rose Chan Loui., The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
  • My fiancée should be able to wear a bathing suit without being sexualized and demeaned.
    — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2017
  • The female gaze doesn’t only have to be on men, or not sexualizing women.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2020
  • That is a long way from being in favor of sexualizing children.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 3 July 2023
  • Wilkinson admits she was sexualized at a young age, even before the mansion.
    — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Many have suggested that men invented heels to sexualize women and hold us back.
    — Chloe Malle, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
  • There’s a history of being exoticized, fetishized and sexualized, but through a white male point of view.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The agenda has swung so far left in an attempt to sexualize our precious children that parents are fighting back.
    — Fox News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Use of Grok for sexualizing photos sparked a worldwide furor.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Use of Grok for sexualizing photos sparked a worldwide furor.
    — Ethan Baron, Boston Herald, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Along the way, the foursome is still wrestling with the toxicity of how they were sexualized and treated in their youth.
    — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The circus acts that bookend the story are weirdly sexualized.
    — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Femme-enfant is a common term applied to women in his work—part childlike guide to the world of dreams, part hyper-sexualized being.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Mayer was accused time and time again of being guilty of sexualizing children, instead of the dress being the culprit.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Women’s experiences of policing in the war on drugs are thus highly gendered and sexualized.
    — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
  • These acts of violence are a response to right-wing claims that drag performers are sexualizing and grooming children.
    — Cassidy George, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Black women are less likely to run in black neighborhoods for fear of being sexualized, harassed and assaulted.
    — Ian Graber-Stiehl, The Root, 11 June 2017
  • There is a history of black women because of their bodies being sexualized and that’s what appears to be happening to me.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The contrast is rare enough to feel refreshing, and the nudity in the script isn’t sexualizing the characters.
    — Shana O'Neil, The Verge, 24 July 2019
  • Some argue the spots helped expand Patrick’s brand by sexualizing her and using her appearance as a selling point.
    — Jenna Fryer, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Alexander is maybe the only man in Industry who does not sexualize Yasmin.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Students should be able to express themselves without being over sexualized and looked down upon because prom is a night of self-expression.
    — Teen Vogue, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Schneider also argued that the jokes on his sets were approved and meant to make children laugh, not sexualize them or make actors uncomfortable.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Amazon Prime In pop culture, sexualized priests are usually campy punchlines to bawdy jokes.
    — Dana Schwartz, Marie Claire, 17 May 2019
  • Thomas also opened up on the podcast about how she was sexualized by Hollywood in the 1980s.
    — Victoria Edel, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • This year, new AI tools allowed people to sexualize and humiliate young women with the click of a button.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024

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