apostrophize

Or that the prolix Gaev — a man as likely to apostrophize a piece of furniture as the stars above — keeps promising he’ll be quiet.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011

Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship.

From Time Magazine Archive

He hired four obscure artists to paint the illustrations exactly as he wanted them, and then got some second-rate poets to apostrophize the plants in sticky verse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus did Adolf Hitler apostrophize his beloved season, spring.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the author be old-fashioned enough to apostrophize the Gentle Reader, I know he must mean me, and docilely give ear, and presently tumble head-foremost into the treacherous pit he has digged for me.

From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American by Julian Hawthorne

Ali Tepelena, once apostrophized by Byron, was real; Albania certainly exists.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2018

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 ● May 18, 2016

Intriguingly, many of the cultural figures whom Harrison has apostrophized in her art are men—Amerigo Vespucci, Charles Darwin, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, as well as DiCaprio, Cheney, and, in his “Scarface” role, Al Pacino.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

Now Lord David Cecil, whose earlier works apostrophized such eminences as Melbourne, Dickens, Cowper, Thackeray and Hardy, has lighted a long memorial candle for little Max.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir William Jones is also thus apostrophized, in connection with his "Asiatic Researches": "Thy comprehensive genius soon explored The learning vast which former times had stored."

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

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 ● Sep. 22, 2016

For all its apostrophizing of the open road, most of the nation dutifully drives at 55 m.p.h., willingly undergoes searches before boarding planes, humbly douses cigarettes from time to time.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Wednesday, Santa Barbara County district attorney Thomas Sneddon Jr. announced with unsuppressed glee that he had issued a warrant for Jackson's arrest, apostrophizing, "Get over here and get checked in."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Give him to me,” she added, taking him from me, and apostrophizing him.

From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill