IDEALIZE in a Sentence

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144 example sentences for IDEALIZE, such as:

1. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
2. It was not the ideal solution to the problem.
3. The hotel's size makes it ideal for large conferences.
4. This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal.
5. We must make efforts to translate our ideal into reality.

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 Meanings and Examples of IDEALIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
idealize
 v.  consider or render as ideal
 v.  form ideals
Classic Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1  The word passion means nothing else to them; and that Higgins could have a passion for phonetics and idealize his mother instead of Eliza, would seem to them absurd and unnatural.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
2  Certainly, these powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths one approaches to ideal perfection.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
3  Style is the form of the ideal; rhythm is its movement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
4  This ideal was realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
5  She was an ideal market-porter dressed in woman's clothes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6  The ideal of oppression was realized by this sinister household.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
7  necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
8  It is the ideal which has the right to say: Take, this.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
9  Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
10  This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL
11  It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
12  These bare feet, these bare arms, these rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be employed in the conquest of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
13  He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
14  Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15  Poverty instantly lays material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds towards the ideal life.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
16  The hotel's size makes it ideal for large conferences.
17  Low - fat foods are ideal for people who are watching their waistline.
18  This is an ideal opportunity to save money on a holiday to Crete.
19  It was not the ideal solution to the problem.
20  The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
21  We must make efforts to translate our ideal into reality.
22  Do the best you can - I realize the circumstances are not ideal.
23  The road of life is a spiral path, only swagger, flexible turning, can rise to the ideal.
24  Going to trade fairs is an ideal opportunity to size up the competition.
25  The ideal of a perfectly fair society is just make-believe.
26  In its ideal form, the alloy is a crystal with each element occupying specific crystal locations relative to one another.
27  For a generation of ballet goers, Rudolf Nureyev might exemplify the ideal of masculine grace.
28  Let us fight on today and every day until our ideal is accomplished, let us conduct ourselves so that we shall prove worthy of that trust.
29  The fact is nobody takes them seriously when they rave about their ideal.
30  In the case of a book where the average width is one inch, for example, the ideal length of elastic will be around 14 inches.