How to Use "rationalize" with Example Sentences

1. Beijing should also strengthen urban land management to rationalize the location of commercial activities and housing development .
2. Their brains were apparently too busy to rationalize their selfishness , so they fell back on their intuitive feelings about fairness .
3. We would rather justify , rationalize , explain and blame someone or something for our obesity , than take complete responsibility for our fat selves .
4. Many people routinely deceive themselves to rationalize dishonest behavior .
5. Sometimes it can be difficult to separate the two types of fear because ego-fear will rationalize itself as healthy fear , e.g. " I don 't want to talk to that stranger because they could attack me , or waste my time . "