How to Use serialize in a Sentence
serialize
verb- Her story was serialized in the magazine.
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And then there are ones that could be more highly serialized or play with the form.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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The episodes will be serialized, instead of a case-of-the-week.
—Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
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But is there anything about the current state of the anime industry that concerns you? Some of the most successful manga series today are serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.
—Mark Schilling, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
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Her life and works are adapted for stage and screen, and her diaries have been serialized on radio.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
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This isn’t to say nu-King of the Hill has become more serialized; each of the first three episodes still stands on its own.
—Genevieve Koski, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
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Its eight episodes are largely serialized and have the tense velocity that is the raison d’être for cop shows in the first place.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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If a licensed dealer acquires a ghost gun, the rule will require them to serialize it before re-selling it.
—Armando Garcia, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2022
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Did this aspect of the novel having been serialized at first prove challenging?
—Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
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The Courant was the first colonial newspaper to serialize Paine’s words.
—Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026
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Micro dramas are serialized streaming programs that are typically served up in one- or two-minute episodes.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
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There’s not a lot of breathing room in the world of 10-episode (or less) seasons, especially since so many of them are strictly serialized.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023
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The first season is stubbornly serialized, despite its inability to maintain logic from scene to scene, let alone episode to episode.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026
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Worthington’s column was serialized, spreading this idea around.
—Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026
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Plus, the entire story was already so episodic, constructed of chapters that jumped back and forth in time, that serializing the films felt very much in the spirit of the whole thing.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’’ was published in book form after being serialized.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
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The action — which will be more serialized than other shows in the franchise — kicks off after Tony’s security company is attacked.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
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Coronabonds would serialize the reward (and mutual debts) of a Union where anyone can place their social politics on the tab of more fiscally alert states.
—Peter Rough, National Review, 22 Apr. 2020
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The Illinois law requires privately made firearms to be serialized through a federally licensed dealer.
—Molly Parker, CBS News, 16 June 2026
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And with something serialized like Sleepy Hollow, which is entering its fourth season, but its first featuring you, what keeps it exciting?
—Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2017
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One of the galleys discovered in their apartment was a saga of a small-town rabbi’s family that had been serialized in Yiddish newspapers but never published in book form.
—Joseph Berger, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
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Other magazines peppered their pages with essays, short fiction, and photographs; Jump ran nothing but one-off and serialized manga stories.
—Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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First serialized in 1897, The War of the Worlds was published as a book the following year and has remained in print ever since.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Sep. 2019
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Serialized publication of Bambi, a Life in the Woods began on this day in 1922.
—Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
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Dickens intended the tale, after all, as popular entertainment, serialized over the course of two years and highly indulgent of gaudy melodrama.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 4 May 2023
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And Capote’s In Cold Blood was first serialized in The New Yorker in 1965.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
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In New Jersey, for example, recent legislation requires all ghost guns to be registered and serialized.
—Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024
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The Biden administration’s new policy changed the definition, redefining what a firearm is in order to require that these weapons are serialized and traceable.
—Brian Howard, The Hill, 9 Dec. 2024
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The original manga is serialized on Shueisha’s webcomic site Tonari No Young Jump.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
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The original manga is serialized on Shueisha’s webcomic site Tonari No Young Jump.
—Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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