How to Use popularize in a Sentence

popularize

verb

• The book presents a popularized version of American history.
• Dream analysis was popularized by Sigmund Freud.
• The play popularized by the Eagles has not been banned.
  — Brandon Funston, New York Times, 21 May 2025
• Co-Founder Steve Jobs popularized the mouse in the early 1980s.
  — Mark Gurman, Houston Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2018
• Jack LaLanne helped popularize the practice in the 1960s.
  — USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
• The concept was popularized in Japan, and has spread throughout the world.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 2 Aug. 2019
• The host of the YouTube series about cooking food popularized on TV and movies sits down with us.
  — USA TODAY, 23 June 2018
• According to Imo’s, the now-franchised restaurant that opened in 1964 and popularized the style, the choice to use it was the whim of a cook.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Red Bull was one of the first brands to popularize slim cans, and White Claw saw success with its hard seltzer in thin white cans.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• The movie popularized the music Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 June 2018
• In the mid-’90s Diana helped to popularize all-hours gym wear.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2021
• The picture is a bodegón, a subgenre that Sánchez Cotán helped to popularize.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• Quiñones was a member of the Lockers crew that helped popularize the locking style of street dance.
  — NBC News, 30 Dec. 2020
• Calvin Klein was the first to popularize unisex fragrances with the debut of CK One in 1994.
  — Tanya Klich, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• Peugeot had success at Pikes Peak in the late 1980s, and the company did much to popularize the event with the short film Climb Dance.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• At the time, no one would’ve called the looks timeless, but the Y2K style Hilton helped popularize—low-rise jeans and going-out tops—has come back around.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Feb. 2023
• And while the Santos has remained true to its DNA through the years, this latest release nods to the design popularized in the 1980s.
  — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Apr. 2018
• At the time, this wasn't exactly a new idea, but Orléans did help popularize the genre.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 14 July 2018
• Much of the credit goes to Gene Shoemaker, who dreamed of going to the moon well before the space race popularized the idea in the early 1960s.
  — Anna Groves, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• There was no vote on the rugby-style push-play that the Eagles popularized in 2022, but the debate around it was contentious.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• The Tampa Bay Rays, the team that popularized the concept this year, emerged as one of the sport’s biggest surprises.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• When first popularized, it was worn by men and women alike, but in the 1920s, U.S. department stores claimed blue for boys and pink for girls.
  — Karena Phan, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• The concept of the Tiger Mom was no doubt popularized by Chua, but the idea of the harsh, overbearing Chinese mother has been around for much longer.
  — refinery29.com, 12 May 2018
• Prince's, which helped popularize drive-ins in Texas, was founded in Dallas in 1929.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• The term was popularized by the movie Napolean Dynamite.
  — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
• Robbins popularized the belief that the mind follows where the body leads.
  — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Her devotion to the waltz and polka helped popularize them in the United States.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
• And that's in addition to the many years it's already been trying to popularize VR.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 5 Feb. 2022
• The introduction of the Chicago street race is also said to have popularized the sport.
  — Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
• Happy also has to save traditional golf when an energy drink mogul (Benny Safdie) tries to popularize a more extreme version of the sport.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 July 2025