How to Use polarize in a Sentence

polarize

verb

• The war has polarized the nation.
• The current debate polarizes along lines of class and race.
• Starlight itself isn’t polarized, so the star looks the same in both versions.
  — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 28 May 2018
• This year, stealth wealth emerged as one of the biggest—and most polarizing—trends.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
• More news to know now Can our politics get any more polarized?
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 12 May 2026
• Equally as polarizing as mom jeans are thong heels—so why not combine the two for a fresh style?
  — Aaron Royce, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
• The fighting is what has made teen takeovers so polarizing in recent months.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026
• Trump and Vance will be strident and polarizing in their rhetoric.
  — Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2024
• Scooters, on the other hand, have been polarizing from the get-go.
  — Johana Bhuiyan, Recode, 30 Aug. 2018
• Many believe this issue is too polarizing to even talk about.
  — Lisa Sherman, Time, 26 Apr. 2026
• How polarized is the electorate?
  — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
• Those who say our politics are too polarized to create these kinds of margins are wrong.
  — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 16 Aug. 2025
• As a bonus, the lenses are polarized for eye protection.
  — Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
• The nation is more polarized than at any point since the Civil War.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024
• We're too polarized now, with extreme and inflexible views on both sides of the aisle.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• For the polarizing defenseman, that has felt like three days at some times, and three years at others.
  — Eric Stephens, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• In a Court, and a country, as polarized as this one, such exchanges can be helpful.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Keep in mind that polarized glasses cut glare, but not UV damage.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health.com, 13 June 2018
• The film polarized viewers but many film critics called it a masterpiece.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• And, as media has become polarized, many fewer places are doing that.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
• The lenses need to be polarized and UV blocking.
  — Kelley Bruss, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026
• To watch something that was so wonderful become so polarized, that’s hard.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
• Public confidence in the Fed is weak and deeply polarized.
  — Annelise Riles, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
• The famed coach has built up a reputation that is oddly polarizing around the league.
  — Tom Rende, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
• The issue is polarizing, but not down the middle and not strictly along party lines.
  — Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
• Viewers' reactions to the film were polarizing, to say the least.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Memphis design was provocative and polarizing—and that was the point.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• At a time where the country’s really polarized.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
• And the easiest way to accomplished that is to polarize the electorate along class lines.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 27 June 2018
• Times and perceptions do change — and the approach to policing is as polarized as ever.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019