How to Use categorize in a Sentence

categorize

verb
Definition of categorizenext
Synonyms for categorizenext
  • 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 discipline’s male founders were eager to chart and categorize the world’s cultures.
    — Charlotte Gray, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • One of the factors is that humans want to categorize everything and somehow make meaning in it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • There seems to be all these devices for how to categorize yourself and all these subcultures to join and everything is on the table.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2021
  • French filmmaker François Ozon is so prolific that his movies aren’t always easy to categorize.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 June 2021
  • It is categorized as a boost-glide system, which is propelled by a missile to the edge of space and uses aerodynamic lift to extend its range and maneuvers itself toward the target.
    — Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But Parton doesn’t sweat the small things — and with a rich career like hers, those offers can be categorized as minor.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The book traces the life of David Starr Jordan, a taxonomist who collected fish upon fish in his attempt to categorize the world.
    — Avery Ellfeldt, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2021
  • All killer whales are currently categorized as a single species, but a new study may change that.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Once added, these items are categorized by brand, color and style and displayed in groups such as footwear, dresses and handbags.
    — Courtney Ortega, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Many of those jobs, though categorized as unskilled labor, require specialized training and physical stamina that is not readily available in the existing U.S. workforce.
    — Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024

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