How to Use stylize in a Sentence

stylize

verb
  • Women were ordered to wear burqas and men not to trim or stylize their beards.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2019
  • If our real world design was too stylized, there would be nowhere to go with the dream world.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That’s a crime almost as bad as stylizing a song title like that.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • That’s a crime almost as bad as stylizing a song title like that.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The actor is known for his unique fashion, and his throw pillows are no less stylized.
    — Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Though overly stylized at times, the series is never dull.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Paris in his film feels stylized, idealized.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • The big game at the end is a triumphant sequence, as stylized as a musical.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The shapes at the top of the painting could be feathers, flower petals, plant fronds or stylized tufts of body hair.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Even the track titles shift from being stylized in all-caps to all-lowercase.
    — James Factora, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Such a conceit—that emotions can be as stylized as clothes—is not a fault so much as a sly strategy.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
  • My focus in our store is to stylize between different brands.
    — Sari Anne Tuschman, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Throughout the film, there’s a tone that blends realism with something more stylized.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 5 May 2026
  • Wilson performed under a large video screen stylized like a horseshoe.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One of her projects was designing stylized images to adorn packets of plant and flower seeds.
    — Tim Evans, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • There are large models of the characters and guests can take photos that stylize them to look like cartoons.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2025
  • Despite the energy brought by the cast, the horrors onstage are sleek and stylized.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
  • Her style is starker and more stylized, with bold blacks as backdrops or in shadowy figures in the foreground.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The images are more stylized, with lots of loose collars and turtlenecks where the clothing is concerned.
    — Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The illustration features Trump with his mouth open and blond hair stylized to look like flames.
    — William Axford, Houston Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But aside from the fairy tale composition, it’s not intended to be stylized.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Some critics called the new name and logo, an angular, stylized X, cold and off-putting.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 27 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, the photos are, like Schumer’s look, pretty stylized.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The way the title is stylized in the new film harkens back to the '54 Garland version.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Speaking of the body, there are so many close-ups on intimate body scenes and stylized choices that make the film feel like a retro home video.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2026
  • His comedy is dry and precise, grounded in a strange realism even when the world is stylized.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Neighborhoods will have the ability to stylize and decorate the bump-outs in unique ways.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The violence is very stylized and a little bit cartoonish.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
  • As is typical of a Refn work, the film is violent, highly stylized and doesn’t tell you what to think.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • Is purposefully messy just as difficult to pull off as highly stylized?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026

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