Example Sentences

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Poet romanticizes her career, and her career is her everything, and that stays really true for the past, present and future.

From Salon • May 24, 2023

The way Miranda romanticizes Washington Heights in his Tony-winning musical “In the Heights” is nothing compared to the way “New York, New York” sentimentalizes the entire island of Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

The teacher, ever the melancholic, romanticizes ancient Greek as a pinnacle of language that has died and toward which he is still vainly striving.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

The beauty of this comedy-drama is that it neither downplays the characters’ difference nor romanticizes it.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

He misses Caroline terribly, and romanticizes her as the ideal woman.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman