COMMERCIALIZE in a Sentence

Learn COMMERCIALIZE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
131 example sentences for COMMERCIALIZE, such as:
1. This is mere commercial accommodation.
2. I work for a commercial radio station.
3. The country has a sound commercial base.
4. He was like a commercial traveller in uniform.
5. The plane did not fly the usual commercial route.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COMMERCIALIZE
commercialize
 v.  exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality
 v.  make commercial
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  "Oh, Lily, that's nice of you," she merely sighed across the chaos of letters, bills and other domestic documents which gave an incongruously commercial touch to the slender elegance of her writing-table.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  Smiling as changelessly as an ivory figurine she sat quiescent, avoiding thought, glancing about the living-room and hall, noting their betrayal of unimaginative commercial prosperity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  This is mere commercial accommodation.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  The Boys' Home was the best hotel on our branch of the Burlington, and all the commercial travellers in that territory tried to get into Black Hawk for Sunday.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
5  In the commercial world it was a Juggernaut car; it wiped out thousands of businesses every year, it drove men to madness and suicide.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
6  Contrary to what one would have expected, all this radicalism did not hurt the hotel business; the radicals flocked to it, and the commercial travelers all found it diverting.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
7  You understand," he said, "that in a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
8  There's plenty of money to be made in a big commercial city.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  Mr. Kernan was a commercial traveller of the old school which believed in the dignity of its calling.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
10  Farther in front sat Mr. Hendrick, the chief reporter of The Freeman's Journal, and poor O'Carroll, an old friend of Mr. Kernan's, who had been at one time a considerable commercial figure.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
11  He was like a commercial traveller in uniform.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  The young lady was enchanted by his persuasive commercial traveller's manners.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
13  That's the sort of thing I do for commercial millionaires.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
14  Their commercial school days were a period of disgrace and despair for the young couple.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  This friend," I pursued, "is trying to get on in commercial life, but has no money, and finds it difficult and disheartening to make a beginning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
Example Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  It gets the newer artist the ability to commercialize and help drive a revenue as well as interest to those songs that have been created twenty years ago.
2  Docklands in its heyday was a major centre of industrial and commercial activity.
3  They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
4  A commercial agent manages the business affairs of company.
5  Although the mill is no longer in commercial use, it is maintained as a working museum.
6  The hope is that this area will develop into a vibrant commercial centre.
7  The country has a sound commercial base.
8  I work for a commercial radio station.
9  Existing commercial broadcasters claim the new stations are illegal.
10  It calls for the exclusion of all commercial lending institutions from the college loan program.
11  A commercial college teaches things that would be useful in business.
12  The plane did not fly the usual commercial route.
13  Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval.
14  Don't forget this is a commercial enterprise - we're here to make money.
15  She is developing the commercial side of the organization.