Example Sentences

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In contrast, Joe imagines a rich inner life that he externalized in destructive ways.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2023

In “Ikiru,” the great Takashi Shimura externalized his character’s desperation with enormous, wide-open eyes and a drooping stare.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

That trick relies on incalculable losses that can be externalized from the financial arithmetic, but not from the world itself.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2022

But, Dargis wrote, Pitt’s “soulful, nuanced performance — which becomes incrementally more externalized and visible, as if McBride were shedding a false face — holds the film together even when it starts to fray.”

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2022

Here was her humanity externalized, and all her longing—for freedom, from disgust, from the confines of her metal cage.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor