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to make famous forever- This melody immortalized its composer
- the moment was immortalized in a photograph
- "You should have come back, Dad," she said to the mountains he had immortalized with words and then shunned the rest of his life.David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
- He did not live to see his son immortalized in bronze.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- The other networks had picked up the catchy sound bite, and Glick was yet again immortalized.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- With that simple gesture, Meadowlark immortalized Saul's fanny—at least for a week.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- To immortalize us, to dazzle us!Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- David wished to immortalize that feat of prowess.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- One unfortunate artist whom Howard sent to paint Seabiscuit's portrait never learned that the horse he immortalized was actually Grog.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
- I had no idea what observations Dr. Hendrickson had immortalized there, and I didn't want to wait around long enough to find out.Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
- You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- You can be immortalized for all time at Wate's Landing."Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- The man immortalized in bronze is balding and middle-aged, with smooth cheeks and an intense look in his eyes.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself, as it were, in his great-grandchildren.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- Seeing their cranky old camp director immortalized in stone, wearing a diaper and spewing water from his mouth, made her feel a little better.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- You're immortalizing it.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- On the evening of July 17, Louie returned from dinner so impressed with his eating that he immortalized it on the back of a letter: 1 pint of pineapple juice.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- 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.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
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