How to Use externalize in a Sentence

externalize

verb

• So one of the main directives was externalizing the events of the book.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2018
• In a movie characters have to externalize their thinking, but that’s not real life.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
• Watching these stories and externalizing them is a way to deal with that anxiety in some way.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 July 2023
• There's some kind of externalizing your inner pain to your outer pain that felt really good.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2019
• Star insomniacs, for there are such people, tend to feel free to externalize their own nightly odyssey.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
• Is everyone an artist, or are there only some people who are compelled to externalize their inner life?
  — Vulture, 24 May 2022
• Hurry up, not all suffering is externalized, please hurry up.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
• Its members would have to commit to managing their economies in ways that would not externalize the costs of their own domestic policies.
  — Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
• After picking a fight with kids at his new school, Mahito externalizes his pain by taking a rock and bashing it into his own head.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024
• Whether that pain is internalized or externalized, someone ends up hurting.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Rapace’s response externalizes four different beats, from a snort to a tear, astonishment to anger.
  — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
• The feminine style of grief is to externalize emotions and express them—to talk with others, cry, lament, and reminisce, say by going to a support group.
  — Colleen Murphy, Health.com, 12 May 2021
• This kind of name-calling also signals a tendency to externalize and place blame, instead of looking inward at their own behavior.
  — Dr. Tracy Dalgleish, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
• Not all suffering is externalized.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
• Yet, many investors are stuck in idiosyncratic land, where they are focused on enterprise value, which is best maximized by externalizing risk.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• This allows listeners to experience audio that feels externalized, as if coming from around them, rather than from within their headphones.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
• The entire process, by being externalized, seems repeatable, unlike the chance encounters of poets with their muses.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• But at Verge, allowing people to understand themselves better and face their fears has led to less externalizing blame on others.
  — Byalice Zhang, Fortune, 5 June 2024
• But sometimes having your darkest anxieties externalized into gripping, scary theater can be a splendid means of catharsis.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2016
• Corporate branding is about the core values and behaviors that your employees will externalize in the marketplace.
  — Braven Greenelsh, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• The shift toward internalizing change as opposed to externalizing it is a powerful one.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
• Baked into every Bitcoin, then, is some amount of value that has been externalized—effectively stolen—from society writ large.
  — Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• The ghost tax is what happens when high-volume, low-trust hiring systems are allowed to externalize their costs onto the people they’re supposed to be evaluating.
  — Ascend Agency, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
• All this emotional processing is needed to write these songs, but the next step is externalizing and actually performing these songs for people.
  — Jessica Lipsky, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• As with Steinbeck’s work diary, the primary benefit of the practice seems to lie in externalizing our inner turmoil.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 30 July 2019
• Those who externalize their self-perception are less likely to have a strong sense of self, which in turn, negatively impacts emotional intimacy.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• Fashion, hairstyles, jewelry, and makeup are still changes that allow a person to externalize their current emotions through their appearance.
  — Audrey Botta, Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2024
• Human civilization has always externalized memory through tools—from cave paintings and books to photographs and cloud storage.
  — Joseph Fowler, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• While some firms have opted to externalize their data to enrich it with other sources due to reporting constraints, this approach enables the retention of data in one common source.
  — Araya Solomon, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• As a result, the show pads Melissa’s quest to face down her past with auxiliary subplots, some more effective at externalizing her dysfunction than others.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025