How to Use co-opt in a Sentence

co-opt

verb

• Both then and now, Nashville’s Music Row tried to co-opt the folk-stomp movement to their own ends.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
• Allow me to co-opt the lyrics of a viral TikTok song, because … what the Hellion?
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 17 May 2025
• Party lines get twisted over the years, and messages and brands are co-opted by people.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• It's been co-opted from Black culture and turned into a stand-in for various slurs.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
• The mass media has been mostly co-opted by the ruling BJP to advance its agenda.
  — Sumit Ganguly, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
• But their fury was too easily co-opted by the few who want to wantonly destroy and used the cover of protest to do so.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
• Those who spoke up in self-defense were either silenced or co-opted.
  — Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• At home, that means repressing minorities and co-opting the press.
  — Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
• Her work was then co-opted and published as proof of pathology under the name George W. Henry.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Their biggest concern was about having a hearing person sort of co-opt this and tell this (story).
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 16 May 2025
• Long before Adolf Hitler co-opted the swastika as a symbol of the Nazi party in 1920, it was used around the world as an ancient emblem of good fortune.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2025
• Her campaign in 2019 was a transparent and ill-fated attempt to co-opt the Bernie Sanders wing of the party rather than offer something new.
  — Jay Cost, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
• His purpose has been co-opted by other, more bloodthirsty men.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• On TikTok, Morris whipped out her guitar and flipped his woe-is-me grievances into a song Sandoval’s band wouldn’t dare try to co-opt.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• These people are co-opting a movement that was created by and for fat people.
  — Stephanie Yeboah, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
• Within a day, the Trump campaign had moved to co-opt the term as its own – and apply it to his immigration proposals in ads and stump speeches.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
• The same sort of efforts to co-opt far-right talking points have been happening across Europe, analysts said.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• The swastika was an important Hindu symbol before it was co-opted by the Nazis.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 5 June 2023
• Meanwhile, the far right in quite a few European countries has co-opted or supplanted the center right that once held sway.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• But since its inception, it has been co-opted and bastardized by those seeking to commodify it to the point that artistry is no longer the focus.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 12 Sep. 2023
• But modern extremists have co-opted them to invoke a new war on Muslims.
  — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 1 May 2025
• Saeed said the team wanted to work with the estate to honor Malcolm without appearing to crassly co-opt his image.
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 7 Feb. 2025
• For the bachelor party, it’s been co-opted as a drinking game; Bailey also has timed the song to ensure his own success.
  — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
• Today’s China seeks not to marginalize competing groups and belief systems, the way Beijing did during the Mao era, but to co-opt them.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• For far too long, hearing folks have co-opted and told our stories, and 100% of them are not reflective of our experiences.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 19 May 2025
• Once in a while, technology still feels easy and—dare I co-opt the world from Apple's marketing department?—even magical.
  — ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
• There is also the history of Black culture and music being co-opted.
  — A.d. Carson, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2024
• If anyone knows how to contact Ralph Nader, please tell him Big Energy has gone too far in co-opting the language of the oppressed … or something like that.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• Turner was an access point to music that had been created by Black artists and then co-opted by white artists and white businessmen.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• The game’s narrative eventually shows the player how digital systems can be co-opted for political purposes by the companies that run them, and how the spectral frisson of virtual likes and online exchanges can, in time, flatten us.
  — Simon Parkin, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025