How to Use memorialize in a Sentence

memorialize

verb
  • The face of the past comes to look like the faces of those who memorialize it.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • He was memorialized on the front page of The Times-Picayune.
    NOLA.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The back of the shirt memorialized the names of the Parkland victims.
    Jillian Ruffo, PEOPLE.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The catch was so clutch, coach Mitch Canham said, the Beavers would have find a way to memorialize it.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 16 Apr. 2022
  • And Clemens turned in a season for the ages, one Texas fans will memorialize for years.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2018
  • Three helmets were staked in the ground next to the Grenada booth to memorialize them.
    Helene Cooper, New York Times, 27 May 2018
  • Ezekiel memorialized the fall of Jerusalem by building a model of the city and lying down next to it for over a year.
    Rachel Held Evans, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • In 1826, artist Charles de Steuben set forth to memorialize Napoleon’s life in a painting.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • In the wake of her death, much of the Glee cast has gathered to memorialize her, both online and in real life.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Some of the deer’s fans are attempting to memorialize it with a plaque.
    Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • And shelves of glass jars, filled with soil from across the South, an effort to memorialize those lost to lynching.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Murphy's name was memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 June 2024
  • Consider ways to memorialize this loss in a way that feels right for both of you.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Consider ways to memorialize this loss in a way that feels right for both of you.
    Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Consider ways to memorialize this loss in a way that feels right for both of you.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2021
  • But that’s the kind of thing the world will have to take in now largely from bits posted online or memorialized on tape and film.
    Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023
  • The show has paid tribute to Braugher with a card memorializing him at the end of the eight-part season.
    Peter White, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The database acts as a way to memorialize the movement — even the quick swipes of graffiti on the sides of closed buildings.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • Now his friend’s name is among those memorialized at the World Trade Center.
    Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
  • His celebration was memorialized with a statue, with his leg in the air and fist thrust in the sky.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Faced with the scale of this catastrophe, the world struggled to memorialize the Holocaust.
    Natalia Romik / Madę By History, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed on Sept. 11.
    Jennifer Peltz, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The 9/11 victims are memorialized at the site of the former World Trade Center towers.
    USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Jodi Hackl said the school wants to memorialize Philip.
    Alec Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the 2001 attacks.
    Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The Pieper twins, both radiomen second class, are the 45th pair of brothers at the cemetery, three of them memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the cemetery.
    Author: Mark D. Carlson, Virginia Mayo, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2018
  • The phase where nurses stamp tiny hands and feet into clay to memorialize unmet hopes and dreams.
    Rachel Fleishman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The names and dates are memorialized in marker on the bucket's cover.
    Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The topic of banning phones at gigs has been a contentious one over the years, with artists wishing for fans to live in the moment, and fans desiring a chance to memorialize their concert experiences.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Two tombstones have gone viral on Reddit after users noticed a striking difference between the way a husband and wife were memorialized.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025

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