memorialize
verb
me·mo·ri·al·ize
mə-ˈmȯr-ē-ə-ˌlīz 
memorialized; memorializing
1
: to address or petition by a memorial
2
a
: to serve as a memorial of : commemorate
a statue memorializing the event
b
: to do or create something that causes people to remember (a person, thing, or event)
a period in history that has been memorialized in countless films
Examples of memorialize in a Sentence
an exciting period in history that has been memorialized in many popular books and movies
at the entrance to the park stands a statue memorializing the novelist Sir Walter Scott
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The scene at Everett and Jones Barbecue, where on Friday the sports icon was memorialized, reflected a different town.
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025
Anyway, Washington’s maneuvers — memorialized by a German-American artist in 1851 — were a turning point in the history of our country.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
No vacation to Florida is complete without memorializing it in a way that nods to the unique locale, brimming with aquatic wildlife from practically every coastal vantage point.
—Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
The desire to memorialize through statues and buildings is often paired with the impulse to alter the truth, to construct the memories that won’t fracture a community’s sense of its implicit goodness.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
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Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025
Anyway, Washington’s maneuvers — memorialized by a German-American artist in 1851 — were a turning point in the history of our country.
—Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
No vacation to Florida is complete without memorializing it in a way that nods to the unique locale, brimming with aquatic wildlife from practically every coastal vantage point.
—Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
The desire to memorialize through statues and buildings is often paired with the impulse to alter the truth, to construct the memories that won’t fracture a community’s sense of its implicit goodness.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for memorialize
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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/memorialize. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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