How to Use italicize in a Sentence

italicize

verb
  • The first of which is the ability, finally, to italicize and bold text.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The five songs that saw a decrease in streaming totals are italicized.
    — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Jon Balke’s score is a spare accompaniment that knows when to italicize the unease and when to color in the serenity.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But the old energy is still there, the bucking head movements and the lunging, italicized delivery.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • With the savage ironies of the Rondo-Burlesque, Salonen saw no need to italicize the bitter humor that Mahler makes perfectly clear on the page.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
  • De Los does not normally italicize Spanish words in our copy.
    — J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Davis wrote in his report, italicizing the words for emphasis.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2019
  • This will only lead to negative consequences both for the rest and italicize Hamas and its leadership.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In one, a creamy pale yellow, the vessels appear slightly italicized by Wagner's oblique angle of view.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The c is lower-case and italicized, as per the scientific notation for quickly light can move in a vacuum.
    — Laura Hudson, The Verge, 19 May 2018
  • The droplets visually italicize Williams’s wheelbarrow, bringing a lowly piece of hardware to the foreground.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • At times, her approach can be a tad too emphatic, the singer italicizing seemingly very gesture.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Text will also be able to be bolded, italicized and visually amplified.
    — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
  • The finale had power aplenty, but delicacy, too, with none of the hell-for-leather histrionics that conductors often use to italicize the young Beethoven's sense of derring-do and adventure.
    — Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The play, similarly, italicizes its themes, most of which are bluntly realized on Kawecki’s set that manages to be both busily semaphoric and strikingly inert.
    — Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The juxtaposition of death with spring lushness italicizes the ordinariness of life cycles.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 6 May 2017
  • Below, find a full list of nominees in each category, with winners signified by an asterisk (*) and italicized boldface.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Hosted by actor Boris Kodjoe, the event italicized the contributions Black women have made in film and television — particularly this year, but also across eras and generations.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The coronavirus crisis has italicized the horrifying costs (measured in actual deaths) of the president’s contempt for science and expertise and the government agencies meant to handle such emergencies.
    — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • Graff’s usually spare background information is italicized.
    — Lucinda Robb, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019

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