How to Use valorize in a Sentence

valorize

verb
  • But rather than valorize Brown, the show demeaned both of them.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 1 Jan. 2023
  • To what end would an author valorize fact inside of a work of fiction?
    — Jennifer Krasinski, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
  • All racial identities were named and valorized, except one.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • Risk-takers who valorize failure — as long as someone else is footing the bill.
    — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • While many are mourning Neely, others are valorizing the man who killed him.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 6 June 2023
  • She has been valorized and vilified in equal measure throughout her life.
    — Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But a curious thing has happened in the half-century since his death — those who opposed him now valorize him.
    — Jemar Tisby, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Startup culture tends to valorize the grind, moving fast and breaking things, hiring fast and firing faster.
    — Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The movie treats the cop avatar with reverence and valorizes police brutality.
    — Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
  • There are faintly fascistic undertones in the form Calvin Klein valorizes.
    — Soraya Roberts, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Certainly the effort to valorize unglamorous lives is worthy.
    — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • This valorizes and increases our expertise with every client.
    — Sheraz Ahmed, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The Gaines’s brand often seems to valorize aspects of traditional gender roles.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 July 2021
  • The industry that contributed to Germinio’s early demise would help valorize him.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 14 May 2020
  • Her downbeat side has been too much stressed, maybe due to a general tendency among writers to valorize the darker byways of modernism.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Her downbeat side has been too much stressed, maybe due to a general tendency among writers to valorize the darker byways of modernism.
    — Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Abramovic comes from a tradition of performance that valorizes extreme effort and duration.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 14 Mar. 2010
  • But Charlie’s connection to the theater is meant as the opposite of satire; it’s not deployed to belittle but to valorize.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019
  • But to indulge in the lavish fantasy world Drake inhabits is to valorize the history and come up that preceded it.
    — Dylan Green, Vulture, 26 July 2023
  • The show also valorizes a supreme military power that is tempered by the pursuit of beauty and the highest of cultures, as if that might be a formula for peace.
    — Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
  • To indulge in the lavish fantasy world Drake inhabits is to valorize the history and come up that preceded it.
    — Dylan Green, Vulture, 26 July 2023
  • The rigor and refinement of her method means that care must be taken with the claim that her victory also serves to valorize the popular current trend of autofiction.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Gypsy Rose Blanchard is far from the first criminal, alleged or otherwise, to be valorized as a folk hero on the internet.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2024
  • But The Girlfriend has no intention of valorizing Cherry, either.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Such an argument presupposes that the show’s lens is meritocratic, too, in ways that align with and valorize Logan’s success.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • Where therapy leads to self-knowledge, and religion offers grace, motivation valorizes success.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Many Americans valorize the gladiatorial might of a football star.
    — Christine Emba, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Spiritual perfection should be valorized more than heroism on the battlefield or stardom in Hollywood.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Silence, individualism, and stoicism became valorized, and talk of death and grief no longer belonged in daily interactions.
    — Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024
  • Americans tend to valorize being driven and ambitious, so letting work take over virtually every moment of your life is concerningly easy.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2021

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