How to Use internalize in a Sentence

internalize

verb
Definition of internalizenext
  • They have internalized their parents' values.
  • Jack, just like a lot of soldiers of the era, dealt with and internalized a lot.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Being an Israeli means that the sense of the state is internalized in you.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Over time many of the young people internalized these views and came to be ashamed of their culture.
    — Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Life comes at you fast and the most successful people have to internalize those lessons even faster to stay in the game.
    — Aron Solomon, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The creative team has very much internalized the lessons of Season Three.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The pressure can be enormous, and the skills and values you’re taught to internalize may not serve you well in the real world.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 14 Aug. 2024
  • After her mom died, Scott — who was 14 at the time — largely internalized the loss.
    — Nicole Miller-Coleman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The Orioles tend to internalize slights and win games in response.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2017
  • But its own breezy way, the episode does internalize a lot of King’s fatalism.
    — Noel Murray, The Verge, 27 July 2018
  • Some of us internalize our pain, while others find ways to channel it out into the world, for good and for ill.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Instead of hiding or internalizing them, own them and show them off to the world!
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 25 June 2019
  • The simplest route to this is to use taxes to force companies to internalize the cost of carbon.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • My hope was to internalize Celsius, not just to learn it but to feel it in my American flesh.
    — Matthew Kassel, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • My mom also hates tattoos and can’t seem to internalize that my niece is trolling her.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Jeff seems to have been internalizing a lot of the events that happened last season, many of which are out of his control.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of the day, there is something to be said for how young girls internalize celebrity beauty standards.
    — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Over the past few years, the Jazz had internalized the friction of modern basketball.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 26 July 2019
  • Give them a chance to think about the documents and internalize their meaning.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
  • The grueling day reminds him of something he’s been forced to internalize the last half-year.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For those still looking to take the first step, internalize the lessons to be learned from these five mistakes and know that a better way of doing things is out there.
    — Tal Frankfurt, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • In other words, try to internalize the pain of oppression and the joy of redemption.
    — Ron Shulman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2022
  • But even people who are not men can internalize this stuff.
    — Britni De La Cretaz, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • But for her part, the singer didn’t internalize the industry’s blatant bias.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • As a result, boys cry far less, and internalize their emotions far more.
    — John Duffy, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • Children of the '80s internalized the idea that old cars were generally cooler and faster, and to a large extent, that was true.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 Apr. 2020
  • But Catherine Olsson, the project’s de facto leader, told me the rubric had helped her internalize what was safe.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • So the manager or coach internalizes the pressure and stress.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
  • So the production pivoted to a scene that sees River internalize Frank’s advice to stand still when being pursued.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Jordan refused the offer of professional therapy from his mother and internalized his grief.
    — Zoe Kaplan, People.com, 6 Oct. 2024

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