serialize
verb
se·ri·al·ize
ˈsir-ē-ə-ˌlīz 
serialized; serializing
: to arrange or publish in serial form
serialize a novel
Examples of serialize in a Sentence
Her story was serialized in the magazine.
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Larner was a speechwriter for Eugene McCarthy during his 1968 campaign for president, which inspired his book Nobody Knows, serialized for Harpers in ’69.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
Picking up after the legendary father-son showdown, this new chapter in the Baki saga adapts Keisuke Itagaki’s Baki-Dou, originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
In 1918, four years before the American bookseller Sylvia Beach published Joyce’s Ulysses in Paris, Anderson began serializing the novel in The Little Review.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2026
Plus, the entire story was already so episodic, constructed of chapters that jumped back and forth in time, that serializing the films felt very much in the spirit of the whole thing.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
Picking up after the legendary father-son showdown, this new chapter in the Baki saga adapts Keisuke Itagaki’s Baki-Dou, originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
In 1918, four years before the American bookseller Sylvia Beach published Joyce’s Ulysses in Paris, Anderson began serializing the novel in The Little Review.
—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2026
Plus, the entire story was already so episodic, constructed of chapters that jumped back and forth in time, that serializing the films felt very much in the spirit of the whole thing.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for serialize
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serialize
verb
se·ri·al·ize
ˈsir-ē-ə-ˌlīz
serialized; serializing
: to arrange or publish in serial form
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