How to Use atomize in a Sentence

atomize

verb
  • More value has been created by atomizing sports rights than by selling more at once.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Herds routinely grow, shrink, atomize.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The team used a micro-dispenser that emits minute droplets of liquid fragrance, along with ultrasound waves to atomize those droplets into a fine mist.
    — Shirl Leigh march 31, New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This kind of local arrangement wouldn’t work in a larger or more atomized community.
    — Longreads, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The decline of the theme song is another example of how fragmented and atomized our culture has become.
    — Christopher J. Scalia, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2019
  • The advent of streaming atomized the entertainment and media ecosystem in a way that can suck for audiences.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Our group had lost each other in the night and the cacophony—atomized by the strangeness—but miraculously found each other again.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The video replay has been argued about, slow-mo’d, super-slow-mo’d, atomized and picked apart with Zapruder-like focus.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 5 July 2017
  • Now, the world has gotten so multipolar, polarized and atomized.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The showerhead atomizes water into millions of droplets, each with more surface area than a regular drop of shower water.
    — Megan Friedman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2015
  • The whole building, this vestige of bohemian Greenwich Village, might be atomized before the end of the year.
    — Mary Kaye Schilling, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Tweets are, by the platform’s very nature, succinct, atomized, and imminently shareable.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 23 May 2017
  • After choosing a scent—mine was Coromandel—the fragrance was atomized into the treatment room prior to my arrival.
    — Sunhee Grinnell, Vanities, 7 June 2017
  • The faucets atomize water, breaking it into a fine mist that still comes out fast enough to clean hands, allowing lavatory-goers to use some 90 percent less.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
  • On the apps, music is atomized into bits, stripped of biography, history, and iconography.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Maybe a sleek ship is being chased by enemy fighters through a dense asteroid field, and one of them smashes into a massive space rock and is explosively atomized.
    — Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • Ultrasonic humidifiers have a small diaphragm that vibrates fast enough to atomize the water before misting it into the air.
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Patel is clearly studied in action cinema, as evidenced by the long takes in which Kid atomizes one attacker after the next.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Had the plane been at 8,000 feet when the dump occurred, the fuel would never have hit the schools because it would be atomized after leaving the wings, Soucie said.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • As familial units grow smaller and more atomized, fewer people get married, and high levels of voluntary childlessness take hold in country after country.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Think of the functions that take place within financial-services institutions as being sort of decomposed or atomized, and then re-solved in a new way using technology.
    — WSJ, 13 June 2017
  • Almost half the novel is devoted to a fascinating reenactment of an average week behind the scenes — from pitch meeting to after-show drinks — sometimes atomized right down to the minute.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In a similar vein, Page argues social media and also the legacy of pandemic lockdowns and school closures a few years ago have made young people more socially atomized.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Amateurs are flooding the internet; piracy has addled the once-dominant studios; production has atomized and scattered.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 May 2018
  • This collapse in social capital left the American people isolated, atomized, and lonely.
    — Tanner Greer, National Review, 17 Mar. 2020
  • In a coaxial-swirl injector, the liquid fuels come into the chamber as two rotating liquid sheets, and as the sheets collide, they're atomized to create a propellant that combusts.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2021
  • In this case, federal officials said the fuel dumping procedure did not occur at the optimal altitude that would have allowed the fuel to atomize properly.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 16 Jan. 2020
  • The mentality is just one example of how young people in China are reacting and adapting to a fast-changing and often atomizing urban society.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
  • That theory is now dead, and the Republican justices appear eager to replace it with a rule that will further atomize Americans based on their religion.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 Jan. 2025

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