dramatize

Example Sentences

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Lighting design by Manuel Da Silva, the group’s production manager, provided pools and shafts of illumination to dramatize the darkened stage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

This sharply psychological work uses the two-character format to dramatize a dance of fractured identities.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

Such data dramatize the growing risks of outburst floods, says Irfan Rashid, a climate scientist at Kashmir University.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024

With a few notable exceptions, the result is often over the top or absurd, in part because it’s hard to dramatize an industry already busy dramatizing itself.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

“We Communists don’t dramatize Negro nationalism,” he said in a voice that laughed, accused, and drawled.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright