How to Use Americanized in a Sentence

Americanized

adjective

• Nkechi asked him in those early months, in her broad, Americanized diphthongs.
  — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• One standout item is her egg curry toast, an Americanized take on her favorite childhood dish.
  — Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2025
• Alexander’s roots may be in Europe, but the world traveler is Americanized.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Her Americanized take on Asian pop was embraced throughout Asia, and Lee’s career quickly took off.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• With opulent interior design, this is the most Americanized of the restaurants in this column, but the food is my least favorite.
  — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
• The options change, but the plate will typically include some type of protein mousse or foie gras that’s not typical on Americanized charcuterie boards.
  — Alex Darus, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
• There’s a long-standing accusation that the show has become Americanized and more reliant on big Hollywood talent.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
• Although very Americanized, I was not even born in the United States and moved here as a toddler, following my military dad.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 2 June 2022
• Aging isn’t a traditional Mexican process so mezcals, at least the non-Americanized ones, never see the inside of a barrel.
  — Oj Lima, Bon Appétit, 22 July 2022
• Ikias said, remembering the way her mother persuaded her to keep the child, the girl who would carry an Americanized version of her name, Angelique-Rose.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Over the past few years, television has gotten over its insistence that international programming is just a feeder system for Americanized remakes.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
• In other words, the North Korean nuclear issue, and indeed the entire debate over the North, has become far too Americanized.
  — Isaac Stone Fish, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2018
• Their Americanized offspring buy supermarket chickens, each encased in a plastic sarcophagus.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• The Israeli media, which had previously celebrated its young, Americanized diplomat, became critical of him.
  — Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an Americanized belief, one that’s only perpetuated by the survivalist nature of rural communities, says Landrum.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Women's Health, 17 May 2023
• TikTok is not so unique, or so uniquely potent; an Americanized TikTok will still be just as addicting and just as manipulative in service to its new corporate stakeholders.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025
• Irving was writing before the Americanized spelling of words like scepter, pioneered by Noah Webster, had fully taken hold, a reminder that the transformations the story describes were still very much ongoing.
  — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
• Countries of origin increasingly feel like accidents of geography as the world becomes more Americanized, corporatized, and homogenized.
  — Theo Miller, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Yet again such Americanized or Americanizing individuals are accused of globalizing the intifada, if not jihad.
  — Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• Today’s Latino population is more Americanized and assimilated than ever before.
  — Paola Ramos, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• There’s a vast generation gap between immigrants and their Americanized offspring; Indian and Pakistani elders harbor prejudices dating back to partition.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
• Based on his popular online short videos, the movie told the story of a cultural clash between Armenian immigrant parents and their Americanized teenage children, all unfolding over a weekend getaway in Palm Springs.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2025