Realize is an English word with synonyms like realise or understand. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Realize meaning
- To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
- To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.
- To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
Synonyms of Realize
Using Realize
- The main meaning on this page is: To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time). | To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real. | To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
- Useful related words include: realise, make, substantiate, actualise.
- Possible Dutch translations are: beseffen, inzien, zich realiseren.
- In the example corpus, realize often appears in combinations such as: realize that, to realize, realize the.
Example sentences (20)
The purple-haired, metal-faced pronoun-fluid crowd apparently does not care or realize, and its enablers do not care or even realize what it means when that document is tossed aside.
I realize how hard careers are and I realize you don’t need someone overnight s—ting on you out of the blue.
Four times, four times in the last 48 hours, in the midst of all the darkness, I didn’t realize, but four times four people sent me passages of scripture and I didn’t realize what that meant until today.
She explained, “The best part for teaching for me has really been being able to sit down one on one, and act more like a coach for a student, or someone that helps them realize their potential, realize how to get to their goals.
According to a Reddit thread (via ), she would soon realize that, "Countries like the Dominican don't have the electrical infrastructure," and other things that are quite common in the United States.
According to the wave of awakening that is spreading in the world, one day all people will realize the sinister, evil and anti-human intentions of those who insult the Quran," the President noted.
Across town, Josslyn and Trina Robinson (Tabyana Ali) will discover something about Adam Wright (Joshua Benard), so they might realize he’s going to be alone for Christmas and try to intervene.
Advocates believe the change also could help underpaid workers realize they make less than people doing the same job.
After her husband returned, the four of them got together, and after some talking, they came to realize that he was their son!
After selling clothes and accessories she curated online for years, Shalawn Randall was able to realize her dream of opening her own brick-and-mortar fashion store B'YOUtique in December 2021 in the Baker Center skyway.
After taking refuge in the river, the characters soon realize that the crocodile isn't getting into the water with them because of the approaching waterfall.
After the representative was caught red-handed pulling the alarm on security footage, Bowman’s office said that he “did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote.
After walking for a little while we realize that we must not have gone the right direction.
AI is already in lots of places where you might not even realize it.
Alcoholics often try “geographic cures,” moving to another place in hopes it will solve their problems, only to realize they took their biggest problem along for the ride.
Aliens picked the wrong block to attack in South London, they didn't realize they were taking on Dr. Who and a former Stormtrooper/possible Jedi.
All of them tell Professor Fowler how he inspired them, making Fowler realize that through his teaching he was able to inspire his students to do good in the world.
Along with him enjoying poetry as an outlet that means something to many and is useless within the world, his main goal is that students will realize that it is okay to be creative.
A lot of people didn’t realize this, but we built the entrance and the stairs as well and the base camp was built.
A lot of people don't realize that Lorne Michaels, the great producer of Saturday Night Live, sort of ghost-wrote all of my dialogue.
Common combinations with realize
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- realize that 68×
- to realize 52×
- realize the 24×
- didn realize 18×
- realize how 15×
- realize they 11×
- you realize 10×
- realize it 8×
- even realize 6×
- realize what 6×