How to Use objectify in a Sentence

objectify

verb

• She says beauty pageants objectify women.
• For adding yourself to the list of men who have objectified me, or made my body a crime scene, or made my body their prey?
  — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 8 Mar. 2017
• Women have been objectified for millennia and this city has played its part.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• Wolff doesn't like the idea of women standing by merely to be objectified.
  — Jona Kallgren, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
• For those who love to objectify, that old attic book smell stays unbeatable.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
• There is never a sense that Ramona or any of the dancers at the club are being objectified.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2019
• Gaga refused to be pigeonholed as an artist, or objectified as a woman in pop.
  — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
• Gaga refused to be pigeonholed as an artist, or objectified as a woman in pop.
  — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
• We were objectified by most of our producers.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
• There are a million ways to be nice to people without objectifying them.
  — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• The forms in which women project and objectify their fears ought to have the chance to scare the bejeezus out of us as often as those of men do.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• And for decades, that beauty standard has been warped and objectified by commercial forces outside of the home.
  — Christine Michel Carter, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2018
• The whole point of the book was to turn the male gaze on its head and be the one looking out at the world — the female gaze — not being objectified by it.
  — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 24 July 2019
• Were the photographs made for prurience, to objectify the victims, or to blackmail the guilty?
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
• How did the creative team avoid objectifying women the way Bunny does?
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
• Earlier this year, the singer was objectified on Twitter when a picture of her chest surfaced on the site.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 16 Sep. 2019
• The problem arises only when the woman being objectified has no choice in the matter.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• Not to objectify the leads of the show, but Beth and Rip are wearing their hottest cowboy gear of the season in this episode.
  — William Earl, Variety, 3 July 2026
• Where the men fragmented the female body to objectify it, the women, like Belanger, worked with more of a wink.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2020
• Rather, the issue lies in a woman’s lack of agency when being objectified by another.
  — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• Being fetishized and objectified by everyone in her life quickly takes a toll on Becca.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
• The show can't be seen to be poking fun at prostitutes, nor can it be seen to be objectifying them, and certainly not shaming them.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Eklöf‘s answer was to objectify him instead.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
• And many of the female leads have been raped, serially abused, objectified, or a wicked combination of such.
  — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 8 May 2019
• Indeed, both husband and wife try to play good cop with Aisha at the other’s expense, and both objectify and take advantage of her.
  — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• How can a woman who chooses to entertain in that fashion suggest she’s being objectified?
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• His remarks to Parker as well as the others are objectifying and the types of comments that make women feel less than human.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 26 May 2018
• The painting is objectified, neither window nor mirror on outer or inner worlds, but a circumstance all its own.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• And Marvel chose to tackle this issue by turning it on its head and objectifying a male character.
  — Jenna Pearl, Marie Claire, 5 June 2017
• While women have long been - and still are - objectified for their looks and appearance, that is a serious but different topic.
  — Liz Bentley /, NBC News, 1 June 2018