How to Use dramatization in a Sentence

dramatization

noun
  • The new film may be the umpteenth dramatization of the book, but so what?
    By anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2019
  • This is about the dramatization of this script that Katie and Sarah wrote.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025
  • The video is an out-of-context dramatization made as a training video.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2022
  • How involved was each hero in the dramatization of their story?
    Gregory Wakeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But, of course, like any Lifetime movie, there's sure to be some dramatization.
    Alex Warner, Marie Claire, 14 May 2018
  • Boy, is there going to be a lot of fiction or at least dramatization written here.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Are there any like dramatizations of his life that exist in TV or film?
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Here is Blacquière’s dramatization of the change in size of that top block of adwords.
    Tim O'Reilly, Quartz, 17 July 2019
  • The set catching fire is a dramatization of several mishaps in the walk-up to the premiere.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Back on earth, there is a very funny dramatization of the events happening on the spaceship.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Anything that was changed was more for dramatization, Cianfrance says.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Evan Peters plays the title role in this dramatization of the killer’s story.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 20 Sep. 2022
  • One person might see that scene as satire and somebody else might see it as a dramatization of something that was happening.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That makes sense, of course; the royal’s real-life blend of beauty, charm, and pathos makes her story ripe for dramatization.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Over time, this new level of dramatization will become more comfortable for you and will no longer feel like a boundary push.
    Stephanie Judd, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And in different genres, no less, with one a docuseries and the other a dramatization.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 6 June 2022
  • The other thing is, the dramatization of family affairs is as old as anything.
    Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Still, pitching a dramatization of the fallout from a disaster three decades old was going to be an uphill climb.
    John Koblin, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The Falklands War takes center stage—albeit with a heavy dose of dramatization—in episodes four and five.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Ryan Murphy’s Monsters is not the first dramatization of Oziel on the small screen.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Jeff Pope is also penning a dramatization of the de Menezes killing for Disney+.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But the show’s deeper appeal lies less in its depiction of the spoils of success than in its dramatization of the actual work.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The appetite for the dramatization of the lives of young British royalty seems to be limitless at the moment.
    Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The musical is a dramatization of what happened to Frank during the trial and after.
    Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Even though it’s broken into one-hour episodes, the thought of an eight-hour dramatization of Franklin’s life might seem like a little too much Ree.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2021
  • But last week a group of stars gathered at Riverside Church for a dramatization based on the special counsel’s report.
    Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • And the great thing about getting to explore it further in a second season is the inner voice is the dramatization of the eating disorder.
    Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • McKenna remembers holding the dying boy — although the boy did not die in his arms, as happened in the movie dramatization.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • For now, this dramatization of the Ohtani scandal remains stuck in the Lionsgate dugout.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The events represented in the comic are the moments in Wilson’s life that are worthy of dramatization.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2017

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