Demonize in a sentence

After an April weekend saw three teens shot as hundreds of youths converged downtown and along the lakefront, then mayor-elect Johnson urged people not to “demonize youth” and resisted calls to walk back that statement.

Although less inclined to demonize immigrants, liberals display their own share of prejudice.

Attacks on madrassas including demolitions of madrassas and de-recognizing them are to achieve twofold objectives: firstly to demonize the Muslim community and secondly to deny religious education to Muslim children.

In his 2012 re-election campaign, former President Obama described them as individuals who cling to guns and religion and demonize people unlike them.

Look, it's easy to demonize your comfort zone as the thing keeping you away from all your big, shiny, terrifying goals — god knows I've done it — but your comfort zone itself is not inherently bad.

On university online forums, misinformation and biased accounts of events were often used to demonize Israel and people that support them.

Purity culture seeks to demonize anything from queerness to kinks in order to maintain the illusion of a single, “normal” way in which “normal” people have sex.

Surely, Gerwig’s intention was not to demonize cellulite but to emphasize the dread women feel at something normal for all bodies.

Thus, many within this movement have shared the observation that there are quite a few individuals within our movement who continually attack or demonize other people who I know are sincerely trying to do a good job.

After all, congestion pricing wasn’t invented in City Hall just to demonize certain New Yorkers.

As to immigration, a huge and largely unsolved issue, the former president continues to demonize and dehumanize immigrants.

But I believe that in the aftermath of a terror attack, we must guard against the way fear makes us lose our bearings so we despise and demonize the other.

But no need to demonize what many people find so appealing and enjoyable.

Democrats went into damage-control mode Tuesday night due to the president’s trash talk, claiming that Biden hadn’t intended to demonize his party’s political opponents just seven days before voters head to the polls.

During his immigration talking points at the State of the Union, President Biden engaged with Marjorie Taylor Greene on the death of Laken Riley and said he would not “demonize” immigrants.

For one group to establish authority over another it must demean and even demonize the conquered society.

I just don't like bullies or people that lie about others to demonize entire groups of people.

In sharp contrast to Trump, Biden said he would never "demonize" immigrants.

It is easy to demonize our Mayor but that is going too far.

Meanwhile, Trump is fighting back with a message on culture war to try to demonize her, including attacks on rights, noted Healy: "He knows what he’s doing by sowing anxiety.