How to Use memorialize in a Sentence

memorialize

verb

• In 1826, artist Charles de Steuben set forth to memorialize Napoleon’s life in a painting.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• But that’s the kind of thing the world will have to take in now largely from bits posted online or memorialized on tape and film.
  — Janell Ross, Time, 18 July 2023
• His celebration was memorialized with a statue, with his leg in the air and fist thrust in the sky.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• The 9/11 victims are memorialized at the site of the former World Trade Center towers.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the 2001 attacks.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2023
• The phase where nurses stamp tiny hands and feet into clay to memorialize unmet hopes and dreams.
  — Rachel Fleishman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• If the site is landmarked, it can be used to memorialize the rich Black history of New York City.
  — Ramisa Rob, NBC News, 19 July 2022
• The city is determined to put a name to every one of those who died and memorialize them with a monument.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
• They were memorialized with a bronze plaque in the old Enquirer Building on Vine Street.
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 29 May 2023
• Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed on Sept. 11.
  — Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the later attack.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
• The feat, memorialized by a statue in New York’s Central Park and books and movies, preserved the sled dog’s place among the world’s most famous animals.
  — Mark Johnson and Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2023
• But all will remember her, and many will memorialize her through memes.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022
• Along the same wall are two gavels, one of which is in a display case, memorializing the passage of the American Rescue Plan.
  — Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes gangsters paid singers to memorialize them with a song.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Shapley, in contrast, memorialized his takeaways from the meeting in notes and an email later that day.
  — Jacqueline Alemany and Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
• To memorialize her companion, and the city's first K9, McManus proposed the bronze statue.
  — Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2022
• At the time, Persons said the renovations would include some way to memorialize the victims of the shooting.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 14 July 2022
• The animal and the region’s wineries are memorialized on the new release’s label art.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2023
• Trail markers memorialize the glacier's backward march, showing where the ice once stood.
  — Becky Bohrer, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• Trail markers memorialize the glacier’s backward march, showing where the ice once stood.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• These sun-sational art prints are an easy way to memorialize a summer day.
  — Kim Hutchison, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 July 2022
• Others come to such posts to memorialize their friends, often after they’ve been forbidden to do so at school.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The right to take this step, which can be used to lower the cost of a prescription medicine, was memorialized in a World Trade Organization agreement.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 6 Feb. 2024
• In the months following the school shooting at Robb Elementary, the number 21 became a way to memorialize the lives lost.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Oct. 2022
• Siller believes the event has become so popular because of the unique route of the run — and the thousands of families who continue to memorialize their own loved ones.
  — Fox News, 26 Sep. 2022
• On a lighter note, here’s a quick aside about the guy who built the hot rooms, who was memorialized in a local restaurant guide in the early 1800s for his absolutely bananas diet.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
• This just felt like a subject matter that would be so incredible to be memorialized that way.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
• Another 19 branches will memorialize each of the children who lost their lives in the adjoining fourth-grade classes that day last spring.
  — Hannah Prince, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Outside, a couple stopped to read the plaque that memorialized Mr. Basquiat’s residence at the address and noted its early use as a stable.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024