How to Use romanticize in a Sentence

romanticize

verb

• We were romanticizing about the past.
• He has romanticized notions of army life.
• Those in and out of the Big Apple tend to romanticize New York.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
• Sam wrote it in a way and shot it in a way that does not romanticize drugs — at least, not for me, anyway.
  — Mónica Marie Zorrilla, Variety, 13 Feb. 2022
• In some of the footage, the filmmakers have strewn apples around the house in tableaux that almost romanticize the place.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
• That was true in the past that Heatherwick romanticizes, too.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2023
• Of course not to romanticize autism or say that people should have autism.
  — Kk Ottesen, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• Yet the writers do not romanticize the life of the Ohio laborer.
  — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2021
• And in its day, the movie did well, but we were criticized for romanticizing the time.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
• JoJo Siwa, who many know as the girl with the high pony and big bow, has left that part of her life in the past and is romanticizing her rebrand.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• Back at the farm, Bee can’t help but feel attracted to Knox, Bee’s ex, and romanticize the pleasures of rural life.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
• None of this is meant to romanticize the Tenderloin in its current state.
  — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
• On the show, Tony spoke of him in reverent tones, but Tony also had a tendency to romanticize the past.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2021
• At the same time, Patel romanticizes her services to the advancement of her own ends.
  — Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Republic, 4 June 2019
• The ’24 Sox aren’t as romanticized by the media or the team, but their names will be forever linked to that one not-so-shining moment in time.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
• That’s a lot of what the book is about to me, not needing to romanticize the dead and validate our own experience with them.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2022
• The notion of fall in New England and old money and that whole world is easy to romanticize, so giving it this big, huge bear hug in this movie was fun.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 1 Dec. 2019
• There is, in all of this, a temptation to romanticize what came before.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• But he was romanticized even (barely) in his time and much thereafter.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• What was true about farms is true about the factories and mills that Americans romanticize to this day.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
• Okamoto echoes these challenges and is not one to romanticize the whole farm-to-table movement.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
• Okamoto echoes these challenges and is not one to romanticize the whole farm-to-table movement.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
• The world has come to romanticize the start-up — the hectic days and long nights of taking an idea, building it into a business and standing it up on its own.
  — Evan Clark, WWD, 27 Feb. 2025
• Sussman writes that figs and grapes have been romanticized in Jewish texts since ancient times.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Guiding is easy to romanticize: you get paid to push boats through big waves, find untracked powder, and summit peaks.
  — Kitty Galloway, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2021
• To the south the memorials advanced the myth of the Lost Cause, which years after the insurrection failed romanticized its purpose.
  — Michael Miner, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
• Hats off to the filmmakers for not pulling punches and romanticizing this city’s past.
  — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Perhaps the person will romanticize the act of driving.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Put simply, the revisionist Western steers away from, or plays against, formula, refusing to romanticize the Old West or depict it as a place with clear good guys and bad guys.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025
• That sketch served as the basis for a watercolor, which revealed Turner’s tendency to romanticize his subjects.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025