italicize

Example Sentences

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To italicize the point, perhaps, the fruit plate is a dollar cheaper than the ice cream.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2022

Notes allows you to bold and italicize, too, which I do every once in a while if I’m feeling wild.

From The Verge • Jan. 17, 2022

The Obama paintings, each figure shown seated and depicted roughly life-size, are stylistically different from each other, although both italicize aspects of the sitter’s personality.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2021

Rayne’s production does not italicize the issue, but the show is not indifferent, either.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2017

"Miracles do not happen:"—'t is plain sense, If you italicize the present tense; But in those days, as rare old Chaucer tells, All Britain was fulfilled of miracles.

From Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale by Lewis, Charlton Miner