How to Use internalize in a Sentence

internalize

verb
  • They have internalized their parents' values.
  • Many of those still there seem to have internalized long ago that the time for protests is over.
    Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Jack, just like a lot of soldiers of the era, dealt with and internalized a lot.
    Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • My mom also hates tattoos and can’t seem to internalize that my niece is trolling her.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Over time many of the young people internalized these views and came to be ashamed of their culture.
    Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
  • As a result, boys cry far less, and internalize their emotions far more.
    John Duffy, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • In the film, the bells keep track of what Agnes has internalized as her failure to heal.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 29 June 2025
  • These two [Cannes films] are both internalized.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
  • The type to internalize actions over words.
    Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of hiding or internalizing them, own them and show them off to the world!
    Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 25 June 2019
  • Being an Israeli means that the sense of the state is internalized in you.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Those are the skills AI can’t internalize.
    Neel Somani, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Some of us internalize our pain, while others find ways to channel it out into the world, for good and for ill.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Give them a chance to think about the documents and internalize their meaning.
    Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
  • Life comes at you fast and the most successful people have to internalize those lessons even faster to stay in the game.
    Aron Solomon, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But its own breezy way, the episode does internalize a lot of King’s fatalism.
    Noel Murray, The Verge, 27 July 2018
  • Every founder and coach needs to internalize this early.
    Yasir Hashmi, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Children like her hear assumptions like that, internalize them, and have to live with them.
    The Cut, 20 July 2017
  • Many people have grown up and internalized that lesson.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Growing up, Klontz internalized some of that shame.
    Veronica Bravo, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The Orioles tend to internalize slights and win games in response.
    Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2017
  • And so really just internalizing the degree to which the odds are stacked against you.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 11 Apr. 2026
  • But for her part, the singer didn’t internalize the industry’s blatant bias.
    Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • At the end of the day, there is something to be said for how young girls internalize celebrity beauty standards.
    Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The companies that internalize these lessons now will be the ones shaping the next era of cannabis retail and brand trust.
    Sara Payan, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The grueling day reminds him of something he’s been forced to internalize the last half-year.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Jeff seems to have been internalizing a lot of the events that happened last season, many of which are out of his control.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Growing up in the midst of this long running war, Bobo internalizes both sides of the struggle.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Growing up in the midst of this long-running war, Bobo internalizes both sides of the struggle.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 July 2025
  • So the manager or coach internalizes the pressure and stress.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017

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