Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Travers felt that Disney had trivialized her book, transforming it into a cloying musical.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2018

In March this year, after the couple felt Mexican police had trivialized the threats and Jeniffer discovered she was pregnant, they decided to return to the U.S.

From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2018

Steve Sadow told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury in closing arguments that Howard K. Stern loved her and prosecutors had trivialized the chronic pain she suffered for more seven years.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2010

In a speech last month, he charged that his colleagues had "trivialized" the rights of criminals by regarding those rights as mere technicalities.

From Time Magazine Archive

She said I had trivialized the issue and if I thought it was outdated I was living with my head in the sand.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood