toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

immortalize
in a sentence

show 28 more with this conextual meaning
  • I had no idea what observations Dr. Hendrickson had immortalized there, and I didn't want to wait around long enough to find out.†   (source)
  • Seeing their cranky old camp director immortalized in stone, wearing a diaper and spewing water from his mouth, made her feel a little better.†   (source)
  • He did not live to see his son immortalized in bronze.†   (source)
  • You can be immortalized for all time at Wate's Landing."†   (source)
  • These lines became immortalized in the history of mathematics: I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.†   (source)
  • This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness.†   (source)
  • …lured the hopeful to the golden West, from the pioneer settlers who endured the horrors of the wagon trail to Chinese workers (once called coolies) and Irish laborers during the railroad building of the 1860s, to the Oklahoma dust-bowl refugees immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, to blue-collar workers pouring into the aerospace and defense industries of World War II and the Cold War, to blacks escaping the segregationist South, to Mexicans willing to pick the crops of…†   (source)
  • …people who have produced only those harmless lilting ditties as their musical legacy; a bellicose people who have never known the sweet savor of victory in a single war; a Catholic country that has never produced a single doctor of the Church; a magnificently beautiful country, a country to inspire artists, but a country not yet immortalized in art; a philosophic people yet to produce a single philosopher of note; a sensual people who have never mastered the art of preparing food.†   (source)
  • "You should have come back, Dad," she said to the mountains he had immortalized with words and then shunned the rest of his life.†   (source)
  • …sun against its crazy sky, its icy nights and too hot days, its many rocks and carloads of dark sand, its tiny, though vicious and poisonous beasts, and its big purple plants, like spineless cacti; and on the afternoon of the second day, as I stood on a cliff overlooking the sea, beneath a tower of massed vermilion clouds, I decided that I rather liked the place for all that, and if its sons would perish in the wars of the gods, I would immortalize them one day in song if I were able.†   (source)
  • To immortalize us, to dazzle us!†   (source)
  • the moment was immortalized in a photograph
  • With that simple gesture, Meadowlark immortalized Saul's fanny—at least for a week.†   (source)
  • One unfortunate artist whom Howard sent to paint Seabiscuit's portrait never learned that the horse he immortalized was actually Grog.†   (source)
  • You're immortalizing it.†   (source)
  • When Faust, in a line immortalized among schoolmasters and greeted with a shudder of astonishment by the Philistine, says: "Two souls, alas, do dwell within my breast!" he has forgotten Mephisto and a whole crowd of other souls that he has in his breast likewise.†   (source)
  • Even learned men have come to a partial recognition of this, as may be gathered, for example, from Prince Wunderhorn, that enchanting book, in which the industry and pains of a man of learning, with the assistance of the genius of a number of madmen and artists shut up as such, are immortalized.†   (source)
  • David wished to immortalize that feat of prowess.†   (source)
  • A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself, as it were, in his great-grandchildren.†   (source)
  • One night while the heat, overpowering and enervating, poured into the windows of his room he struggled for several hours in a vague effort to immortalize the poignancy of that time.†   (source)
  • This outfit set the human grandeur of that head in strong relief against the pillow, in part lending it a less bourgeois, more working-class look, in part suggesting a sculptured, immortalized bust.†   (source)
  • Within the shadow, I may figuratively say, of that religious edifice immortalized by Chaucer, which was anciently the resort of Pilgrims from the remotest corners of — in short,' said Mr. Micawber, 'in the immediate neighbourhood of the Cathedral.'†   (source)
  • When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness.†   (source)
  • How far it is from the epoch when Robert Cenalis, comparing Notre-Dame de Paris to the famous temple of Diana at Ephesus, *so much lauded by the ancient pagans*, which Erostatus *has* immortalized, found the Gallic temple "more excellent in length, breadth, height, and structure.†   (source)
  • And not leaving behind him the book that would have immortalised his name— MRS. ELVSTED.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it immortalized.
  • To be so near happiness, so near fame, so near the long paragraph in praise of the private theatricals at Ecclesford, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Ravenshaw, in Cornwall, which would of course have immortalised the whole party for at least a twelvemonth! and being so near, to lose it all, was an injury to be keenly felt, and Mr. Yates could talk of nothing else.†   (source)
  • He loved deeply, he was hated; he adored, he was scorned; he wooed a wild beast, he pleaded with marble, he pursued the wind, he cried to the wilderness, he served ingratitude, and for reward was made the prey of death in the mid-course of life, cut short by a shepherdess whom he sought to immortalise in the memory of man, as these papers which you see could fully prove, had he not commanded me to consign them to the fire after having consigned his body to the earth.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it immortalize.
  • I am a knight-errant, and not one of those whose names Fame has never thought of immortalising in her record, but of those who, in defiance and in spite of envy itself, and all the magicians that Persia, or Brahmans that India, or Gymnosophists that Ethiopia ever produced, will place their names in the temple of immortality, to serve as examples and patterns for ages to come, whereby knights-errant may see the footsteps in which they must tread if they would attain the summit and…†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it immortalizing.
▲ show less (of above)