How to Use categorize in a Sentence

categorize

verb
  • Birds are categorized by type in this field guide.
  • This software lets you categorize your photographs in many different ways.
  • Their opinions can be categorized as conservative.
  • The appeals court did not rule on how any of the videos should be categorized.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Prager said there are three ways to categorize the birds there.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Another way to bucket your goals is to categorize them into the sum of the parts or the parts of the sum.
    — Gregory Salsburg, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • For thousands of years, humans have felt the need to categorize things in the world in order to make sense of them.
    — Allison Hope, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Last week, there was one such tweet that could be categorized as both.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Far too hard to categorize in terms of cause and effect.
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025
  • At the same time, being hard to categorize has not always been a bad thing.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • On the Beaufort scale, long used to categorize wind strength, a 32 mph wind reaches near-gale force.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • There’s two types of rare earths, categorized by their atomic weights: heavy and light.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
  • The Gophers staff categorizes players from smallest to largest on a scale of one to five.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 27 Dec. 2019
  • So the idea of categorizing books and their creators is not new.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Charles Ray is an artist easy to embrace but slippery to hold close and categorize.
    — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • This is categorized in one of the following three ways.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Out of the four elements (earth, fire, water and air), it is categorized as an earth sign.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The start-up is planning to launch satellites to study and categorize space junk, creating a kind of Google Maps of space.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Newark, by contrast, is categorized as a Level 2 airport, one of just four in the U.S.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 9 May 2025
  • Like always trying to categorize leaves and rocks and s—. Bugs though, that’s a new comfort.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The ancients grappled with how to categorize the sensations that come to us through food.
    — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Wake Up!—left critics and fans unsure how to categorize the group.
    — Zach Schonfeld, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • This meant that Calderón could run a simple script to help categorize the charges into groupings.
    — Karim Doumar, ProPublica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • More than half of PG&E’s service area is categorized as a high fire threat, the company says.
    — J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The severity of the drugs is categorized into five levels that the DEA calls schedules.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 7 Sep. 2023
  • What is abundant, what is scarce, and what is harder to categorize?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • In a good rotation, all of them categorize as No. 3 starters.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • In both cases, whether the taco was categorized as a sandwich or not-a-sandwich was almost beside the point.
    — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • Her job is to flag and categorize it before quickly moving on.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 19 June 2025
  • Parkinson’s is categorized into five stages, with stage 5 characterized by the most severe impairments that require around-the-clock assistance.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2025

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