dramatize

Example Sentences

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In dramatizing the moment to his own benefit, Jackson provoked hostility from King’s widow and others in the movement’s leadership that lasted decades.

From Los Angeles Times

But a recent swing through the Maracaibo region in northwestern Venezuela dramatized the many obstacles.

From Los Angeles Times

Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal

The television creator knows how to pique viewers’ interest, often dramatizing notable people and events.

From Los Angeles Times

This dramatized movie, however, seeks to retrieve something else: a spark of unignorable humanity from a media ecosystem of headlines and statistics that doesn’t always grasp how distancing it can be.

From Los Angeles Times