How to Use secularize in a Sentence

secularize

verb

• The government secularized the hospital.
• The atom bomb was the hot force which secularized Armageddon.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
• As Europe has secularized, Poland has remained a deeply Catholic country.
  — James Traub, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2016
• Benedictines sympathize with the first two groups but tend to be more pessimistic about the prospects for national political or top-down solutions while the culture continues to secularize.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 13 July 2021
• While many Spaniards still identify as Catholic, religious observance has dropped sharply amid secularizing trends seen in other once-staunchly Christian countries.
  — ABC News, 8 June 2026
• The sweeping 1930s reforms of Ataturk secularized the building and brought museum status; today partially cleaned mosaics peek out from the plaster with glints of gold along the high upper gallery.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
• In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• Congregational demise is troubling, but underreported data suggest that fear of a secularizing America may be overwrought.
  — Ericka Andersen, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2020
• And as those experiments intensified and secularized in succeeding centuries, the death toll expanded exponentially.
  — George Weigel, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
• At one point, Alito argued that a religious symbol like the Latin cross—a symbol indisputably linked to Christianity and its fundamental beliefs—can be secularized.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 June 2019
• The building was secularized during the French Revolution and designated as a burial space for exceptional French citizens.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
• The building was secularized during the French Revolution and designated as a burial space for exceptional French citizens.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
• If Gen Z’s general disinterest in religion persists, American society will only secularize further.
  — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
• Goenka was also skilled at using the language of universalism to secularize Buddhist meditation, presenting himself as a committed non-Buddhist who nevertheless accessed its benefits.
  — Daniel M. Stuart, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
• Albania was the first country to legally secularize, in 1912—while focusing lovingly, melancholically, on the human experience of totalitarianism.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 10 Jan. 2018