apostrophize

Example Sentences

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Both thereby apostrophize America’s original sin and permanent crisis: the otherizing of the not white, regardless of gradations.

From The New Yorker

She revealed this with a sense of embarrassment at her own wistfulness — her dreamy nostalgia evoking Beckett’s Winnie, who leans back in her mound and apostrophizes the “old style.”

From Los Angeles Times

Rather than apostrophizing and examining the sexist and homophobic attitudes of the macho private eye from its classic incarnations, it serves them up straight with a twist of heroism.

From The New Yorker

Now, when she sat down to write in her notebook, she found herself apostrophizing anything that crossed her mind, addressing concepts and objects directly, trying to name their component parts.

From The New Yorker

Sealing the message of political friendship was a video of the center’s namesake, apostrophized as “the greatest Irish American,” speaking during his visit to Ireland in 1963.

From Washington Post