How to Use objectify in a Sentence

objectify

verb
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  • She says beauty pageants objectify women.
  • The whole point of the book was to turn the male gaze on its head and be the one looking out at the world — the female gaze — not being objectified by it.
    — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 24 July 2019
  • For adding yourself to the list of men who have objectified me, or made my body a crime scene, or made my body their prey?
    — Caroline Rothstein, Marie Claire, 8 Mar. 2017
  • The forms in which women project and objectify their fears ought to have the chance to scare the bejeezus out of us as often as those of men do.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
  • There is never a sense that Ramona or any of the dancers at the club are being objectified.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Where the men fragmented the female body to objectify it, the women, like Belanger, worked with more of a wink.
    — Marley Marius, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Wolff doesn't like the idea of women standing by merely to be objectified.
    — Jona Kallgren, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Earlier this year, the singer was objectified on Twitter when a picture of her chest surfaced on the site.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 16 Sep. 2019
  • And for decades, that beauty standard has been warped and objectified by commercial forces outside of the home.
    — Christine Michel Carter, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Indeed, both husband and wife try to play good cop with Aisha at the other’s expense, and both objectify and take advantage of her.
    — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Women have been objectified for millennia and this city has played its part.
    — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • His remarks to Parker as well as the others are objectifying and the types of comments that make women feel less than human.
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 26 May 2018
  • The problem arises only when the woman being objectified has no choice in the matter.
    — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The work didn’t sit well with feminists, who accused Mr. Brakhage of objectifying his wife.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • There are a million ways to be nice to people without objectifying them.
    — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The show can't be seen to be poking fun at prostitutes, nor can it be seen to be objectifying them, and certainly not shaming them.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And the men get objectified in a tame, schoolyard way, with Perry playing a Mae West-ish caricature.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 28 Mar. 2018
  • No matter that my novel dealt with the myriad ways women and girls are objectified, I was asked to lie on any number of surfaces to be photographed.
    — Emma Cline, The Cut, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Here was a chance to talk about the raw power and skill of one of the most competent sportswomen in history—to respect her game—and instead people were objectifying her.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 19 July 2023
  • And many of the female leads have been raped, serially abused, objectified, or a wicked combination of such.
    — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 8 May 2019
  • But when the President of the United States openly objectifies women, what once cut begins to grate dully.
    — Chaya Babu, CNN, 13 June 2017
  • Rather, the issue lies in a woman’s lack of agency when being objectified by another.
    — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • And Marvel chose to tackle this issue by turning it on its head and objectifying a male character.
    — Jenna Pearl, Marie Claire, 5 June 2017
  • Like pickup artists, high value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high value partner as the prize.
    — Eve Upton-Clark, refinery29.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Like pickup artists, high-value dating can objectify the opposite gender and turns dating into a game to be won, with a high-value partner as the prize.
    — Eve Upton-Clark, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2022
  • While women have long been - and still are - objectified for their looks and appearance, that is a serious but different topic.
    — Liz Bentley /, NBC News, 1 June 2018
  • Late last month saw the publication of All the President’s Women, an in-depth exploration of Trump’s tendency to objectify the women who cross his path.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And while Playboy did lend a sheen of acceptability to overt sexuality, the truth is that women found means to leverage the way men objectified them long before the brand came along.
    — Jessica Valenti, Marie Claire, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Yes, the girl who criticized him for objectifying his female employees by making leotards their work uniforms came to him for a job.
    — Karmen Fox, baltimoresun.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • This event is typically looked back at as a moment when men got to freely objectify, sexualize, and often harass women on the streets, yet there are two women at the center of the production.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 27 Mar. 2024

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