DRAMATIZE in a Sentence

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82 example sentences for DRAMATIZE, such as:

1. Don't be the neglected, dramatic wife, Scarlett.
2. People dramatically cross very thin line between life and death.
3. She would make the dramatic association understand her aspiration.
4. Sales of nerve gas antidotes increased dramatically before the war.
5. She wanted to give up the play, the dramatic association, the town.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRAMATIZE
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dramatize
 v.  represent something in a dramatic manner; add details to
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Don't be the neglected, dramatic wife, Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
2  Mrs. Fisher was small, fiery and dramatic; and her hands and eyes were admirable instruments in the service of whatever causes he happened to espouse.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  Her dramatic instinct was roused by the choice of subjects, and the gorgeous reproductions of historic dress stirred an imagination which only visual impressions could reach.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  Her visit to the Girls' Club had first brought her in contact with the dramatic contrasts of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  She reminded herself that she was actually at the dramatic moment of the bride's home-coming.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Kennicott brought down a fat red squirrel and at dusk he had a dramatic shot at a flight of ducks whirling down from the upper air, skimming the lake, instantly vanishing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  She impulsively invited the Dillons to the dramatic association meeting, and when Kennicott was brusque to them she was unusually cordial, and felt virtuous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  So it was with affection but also with weariness that they approached the evening on which Carol was to see the plays at the dramatic school.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  It was only from duty that Carol dragged him and herself out of the warm hotel, into a stinking trolley, up the brownstone steps of the converted residence which lugubriously housed the dramatic school.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  She would make the dramatic association understand her aspiration.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  Sam Clark had boastfully written about the dramatic association to his schoolmate, Percy Bresnahan, president of the Velvet Motor Company of Boston.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  She wanted to give up the play, the dramatic association, the town.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  She turned to the Chautauqua as she had turned to the dramatic association, to the library-board.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  Myrtle Cass was saying you got up a dramatic club and gave a dandy play.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  The conference on a dramatic club theoretically included Kennicott, but he sat back, patting yawns, conscious of Fern's ankles, smiling amiably on the children at their sport.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  Leeds Castle will provide a dramatic backdrop to a fireworks display next Saturday.
17  The last golf tournament of the European season is building up to a dramatic climax.
18  If something dramatic has happened during the day, we'll sit and natter about it.
19  The news media is also more likely to gravitate to stories about horrific atrocities or dramatic triumphs over adversity than humdrum tales of a soldier returning home, getting a job and starting a family.
20  A maverick in war and politics, Israel's Ariel Sharon reshaped the Middle East in a career marked by adventurism and disgrace, dramatic reversals and stunning rebounds.
21  But who thought Bollywood, India's prolific Hindi-film industry, would be at the centre of a dramatic saga of its own.
22  The operation to seize the base — one of the Ukrainian military's last strongholds on the peninsula — was larger and more dramatic than at other installations where Ukrainian forces have capitulated steadily in recent days as Russia declared its formal annexation of the region.
23  A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama.
24  Financial markets haven't seen anything like this since the dot com boom of the late 1990s, which was followed by an equally dramatic crash.
25  The technique could lead to a dramatic increase in the worldwide stocks of blood available for transfusion.
26  The population increased dramatically in the first half of the century.
27  I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.
28  Sales of nerve gas antidotes increased dramatically before the war.
29  People dramatically cross very thin line between life and death.
30  Infant mortality has been dramatically reduced because of modern medicine.