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 ancients grappled with how to categorize the sensations that come to us through food.
  — New York Times, 6 Sep. 2021
• An alien robot from a machine world, who isn’t scared to define and categorize our relationship.
  — Avi Steinberg, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
• Under the current dietary guidelines, beans, peas and lentils are categorized as both vegetables and protein foods.
  — Randi Richardson, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
• The team tries to categorize items into their respective shows, Gwynn said, by putting a tag on them or keeping different shows in their own sections.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
• 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
• As a fire approaches, structure crews must evaluate what sorts of fire preparations residents have already made and categorize whether a house or building can be saved.
  — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
• To be categorized as R&B is an honor and a blessing, but the progressive moments create a whole other space for people to be free in their art.
  — Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, Billboard, 5 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
• 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
• 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
• She was recently named the greatest pop star of the 21st century by Billboard and Rolling Stone categorized her as one of the greatest vocalists of all time.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024