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Americanize is an English word with synonyms like change or alter. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Americanize in a sentence

Related words

Americanize | Americanized

Americanize meaning

  1. To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.
  2. To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States.

Synonyms of Americanize

americanise change alter modify

Related words

Other words often associated with Americanize or its synonyms:

redact desexualize happening outcome interpolate sterilise transfer action spay occurrent add edit

Using Americanize

  • The main meaning on this page is: To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America. | To localize a medium for sale or use in the United States.
  • Useful related words include: americanise, change, alter, modify.
  • In the example corpus, americanize often appears in combinations such as: to americanize.

Context around Americanize

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often after:

yourself 1×

Sentence patterns with Americanize

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

accommodate and americanize them motivated 1× effort to americanize and civilise 1× here you americanize yourself for 1× laurents to americanize the british 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

enough with the 1× hitchcock wanted laurents 1× the need to 1× you settle here 1×

Common sentence endings:

for the screen 1× national political conversation 1× of spiritual genocide 1× to the jts 1×

Words around Americanize

Just before it in the word index:

americanization 14 americanist 2 americanism 29 americanisation 3 americani 2 americanas 3

Just after it in the word index:

americanized 28 americann 4 americanness 4 americano 17 americanos 7 americans 8.683

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaaand 6 aaah 6 aaargh 6 aacl 6 aadhi 6 aak 6

Corpus analysis for Americanize

  • In this selection, "americanize" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, yourself stand out and add context to how "americanize" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include accommodate and americanize them motivated and effort to americanize and civilise. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "americanize" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with americanize

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Hitchcock wanted Laurents to Americanize the British play Rope (1929) by Patrick Hamilton for the screen. (16 words)

Enough with the physical massacres; what was needed was a concerted effort to Americanize and civilise, a form of spiritual genocide. (21 words)

You settle here, you Americanize yourself, for which the very first step is to master English, so you can join in the national political conversation. (25 words)

Longer example sentences

The need to find a religious framework that would both accommodate and Americanize them motivated Jacob Schiff and other rich philanthropists, all Reform and of German descent, to donate $500,000 to the JTS. (34 words)

You settle here, you Americanize yourself, for which the very first step is to master English, so you can join in the national political conversation. (25 words)

Enough with the physical massacres; what was needed was a concerted effort to Americanize and civilise, a form of spiritual genocide. (21 words)

Example sentences (4)

Enough with the physical massacres; what was needed was a concerted effort to Americanize and civilise, a form of spiritual genocide.

You settle here, you Americanize yourself, for which the very first step is to master English, so you can join in the national political conversation.

Hitchcock wanted Laurents to Americanize the British play Rope (1929) by Patrick Hamilton for the screen.

The need to find a religious framework that would both accommodate and Americanize them motivated Jacob Schiff and other rich philanthropists, all Reform and of German descent, to donate $500,000 to the JTS.

Common combinations with americanize

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • to americanize 2×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "americanize" in a sentence?
An example: "Enough with the physical massacres; what was needed was a concerted effort to Americanize and civilise, a form of spiritual genocide." This page contains 4 example sentences with the word "americanize" from authentic English texts.
What does "americanize" mean?
Americanize means: To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.
What are synonyms of "americanize"?
Common synonyms of "americanize" include: americanise, change, alter, modify.
How many example sentences with "americanize" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 4 example sentences with "americanize", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.