How to Use fetishize in a Sentence

fetishize

verb
Definition of fetishizenext
Synonyms for fetishizenext
  • Women who don't shave or wax their body hair don't need to be fetishized.
    — Health.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The show doesn’t fetishize but also doesn’t avoid talking about process.
    — Seph Rodney, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • Jean Genet, Serge Gainsbourg—if only to fetishize the margins.
    — Lauren Elkin, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The black zero had proved its worth and became fetishized by the CDU, quite literally.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2019
  • At no point during the car’s launch event did anyone mention, fetishize, or enthuse about speed.
    — Alex Goy, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The camera fetishizes their bikes and their yearning to belong as much as the characters do themselves.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Let other folks fetishize the convenience of a fish filet: The whole roasted fish is my idea of convenience food.
    — Sunset Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Guns are glamorized and fetishized in ways that are disturbing.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2020
  • And at the vendor expo, where guns, scopes and silencers are displayed like jewelry, weapons of war are fetishized.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • But if local journalism is content to fête and fetishize white supremacy, the law is not quite so sanguine.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Rock is often thought to fetishize youth, but few rock artists at their peak rushed headlong into middle age the way Tom Petty did.
    — Steve Kandell, GQ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • In this view, fetishizing the tools of the trade is a sterile, even masturbatory, approach.
    — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Large penises are fetishized; so are women’s backsides.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 21 June 2017
  • His fight scenes are often too chaotic, and one scene fetishizes violence so much that Quentin Tarantino might blanch.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019
  • For that reason, Chicago chefs—and food writers—tend to fetishize street food more than their counterparts in other cities.
    — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The robot’s body is fetishized and customized for pure gratification of the man.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Cult of the founder, founder-worship, fetishizing non-conformity VC’s need to be more firm and reject founders who have these character traits.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Pretty clearly, now is the moment to learn how to fetishize stability.
    — Paul Ford, Wired, 3 Aug. 2022
  • In a product category where bows, feathers, faux gems, and the like tend to fetishize back door play, Maude's thoughtful, intimate take on the toy stand apart.
    — Karina Hoshikawa, refinery29.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • O’Donnell is bright and upbeat, and doesn’t shrink from the decision to fetishize two of America’s most reviled killers with such specificity.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Unlike the masculine tradition invoked in the lecture, this book does not fetishize the refusal of beauty.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2021
  • After all, in a culture that fetishizes guns, video games surely cannot be excluded as a factor in gun violence?
    — David Dupee, Fortune, 2 May 2023
  • Todd is set in Portland, a city that TV shows frequently fetishize in various quirky, progressive ways.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2022
  • This is a team that fetishizes efficiency, believes in shooting more layups, free throws and 3-pointers than anyone thought possible and shuns the mid-range.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 7 May 2018
  • In Stories, food is less an object to fetishize than a prop in the narrative, a set piece for a small-scale Kardashians simulacrum, and everyone gets to be Kim.
    — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Several took to social media to mock and criticize the campaign for fetishizing the plights of the show's oppressed characters.
    — Christi Carras, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
  • The Rare Whiskey Presenter Set fittingly fetishizes and protects your tipple.
    — Miranda Agee, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • But the trend isn’t just about fetishizing the past; plenty of recent projects feature screens, and images of those spaces are inspiring homeowners as well.
    — Michelle Brunner, Twin Cities, 15 June 2019
  • And a commentator on Twitter noted an in-game ad that seems to creepily fetishize trans women.
    — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 14 June 2019
  • Americans increasingly fetishize the armed forces and believe that the only true patriots are those in uniform.
    — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2021

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