How to Use propagandize in a Sentence

propagandize

verb
  • He uses his movies to propagandize for the state.
  • They were propagandized into believing what the government wanted them to believe.
  • But the illumination clearly shows how art can be used to propagandize hate.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • In such a world, a university can exist only to propagandize.
    — WSJ, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Yes, Cuba has high rates of literacy, but the state wanted readers in order to propagandize them.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2020
  • This is likely because of the demands of dramatic compression rather than any propagandizing on the part of the show’s makers.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • There has been an effort to propagandize the public with the idiotic mantra of no obstruction no collusion.
    — Alana Abramson, Time, 25 June 2019
  • Hamas’ attack, much like our 9/11, was a crime that, for political reasons, was propagandized into an act of war.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • All of it is akin to the Left’s long history of propagandizing news to advance political agendas.
    — Christopher Tremoglie, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
  • What the village might then need to save itself from the deceptive and propagandizing power of media, Sembène didn’t live long enough to dramatize.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The attacks also have a way of propagandizing themselves, inspiring copycat attacks.
    — Brad Dress, The Hill, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The software will be used to quash an ever increasing growth of extremist recruiting and propagandizing on digital platforms.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 26 May 2017
  • He’s been lightly educated, or propagandized, like countless others.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And while art has been used by governments to weaponize, propagandize, and manipulate populations, it has also been suppressed and censored to shut down resistance.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 9 Feb. 2026
  • These efforts are so widespread, they have already been propagandized, in promotional videos wherein drones disperse groups of people playing newly dangerous sidewalk games of mah-jongg.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • This is why perpetrators work so hard to propagandize, criminalize, and dehumanize the Other.
    — Anna Lind-Guzik, Vox, 20 June 2019
  • An hour later, the season’s finalists on Fiji made their own case to the jury, propagandizing their games, presenting a narrative a majority of voters would accept.
    — Shaan Merchant, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2026
  • But unfortunately, the most important lesson learned from that era of cinematic propaganda has been lost and forgotten already—that there must be consequences for propagandizing for the bad guys.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The issue —which was flagged by its own researchers — is particularly harmful for teenage girls who compare themselves to influencers who propagandize popularity and physical perfection.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Saudi Twitter has since become a place for the government to propagandize, track dissident thought, and identify victims for MBS’s personal team of enforcers.
    — Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The Education Department is letting for-profit colleges fleece their students — while its leader tours the country propagandizing against the very concept of public education.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Meanwhile the Chinese government is constantly propagandizing against the United States within China and beyond its borders.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
  • But the musicians and other performers being sent by Pyongyang, like any North Korean artist allowed to appear overseas, will have been well-trained in propagandizing for the country’s authoritarian regime.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • This year, the public learned that Russian operatives used Facebook to propagandize and troll Americans during the 2016 election, using connectivity to create division.
    — Avi Selk, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • What Rusbridger’s account leaves out is that the BBC has reproduced the prejudices of successive British establishments since its inception in the early twentieth century, whether by propagandizing against workers during the general strike of 1926 or by condemning the antiwar protests of 2003.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

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