How to Use visualize in a Sentence

visualize

verb
  • She tried to visualize the scene he was describing.
  • Before you swing, visualize yourself hitting the ball.
  • The key is to be able to visualize the rewards and not give up.
    Lee Piccoli, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Small tufts of wool stuck to the bodywork help visualize airflow over the body.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Scientists struggled to make sense of the creatures, and the sculptures were the first attempt to visualize them in true-to-life size.
    CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
  • There is no right or wrong choice to start visualizing your goals.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Of course, not all of America could visualize themselves in the TV show.
    Mark Bennett, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The missing word is SEE, which can mean both to visualize and to understand.
    Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Those who have it can’t visualize anything in their head.
    Stefano Montali, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2023
  • To visualize Laczkovich’s achievement, imagine a circle and square side by side on a page.
    Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
  • This helps Jews to visualize the past and look forward to a better future.
    Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Marvel might have tried all sorts of things just to visualize wild concepts.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The poignant photo visualizes the present and future of the monarchy, as George follows his father Prince William as second in line to the throne.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
  • One of the problems is that people cannot visualize the scale of the carbon emissions involved.
    Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 27 Jan. 2023
  • BofA has a pie chart to visualize that: Don't bank on that ratio lasting for long.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The name also helps people visualize what the color is.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Write down your intentions, visualize them or speak them aloud to the universe.
    Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Just wanted great pictures that helped visualize the story and the emotion of the album.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • To help visualize the scale of the two-piece set Sarah placed three tortilla chips over each triangular piece of fabric on the top and bottom.
    Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
  • So one of the beautiful things about this whole business is visualizing what goes on.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Any other siblings and adults should be treated also if live lice are visualized in the scalp.
    Alena Hall, Verywell Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Take a few moments each day to look at your vision board and visualize yourself achieving your goals.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Surely, this ability to visualize what is lost is a net gain.
    Suhita Shirodkar, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
  • In the meantime, though, the team is thrilled that a stamp-sized patch can actually visualize a person’s organs.
    Wired, 29 July 2022
  • Cohen visualized the ideas from Roth’s survey with a simple picture: a square crisscrossed by two thick strips, with a thin line down the middle of each.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The math of it — that a small percentage of a very high number of infections can yield a very high number of deaths — is difficult to visualize.
    Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • These are neurons from the brain of a rat that have been visualized under a microscope in a neuroanatomical study.
    Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2023
  • His plan gave the opposing parties a chance to visualize what the quality of life could look like when tensions subside.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The stacked squares on Zoom calls may seem equal, but new research explores how leaders still visualize status on remote video calls.
    Jena McGregor, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The picturesque term helps investors visualize the process.
    Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022

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