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.
• Prager said there are three ways to categorize the birds there.
  — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Another way to categorize memories is by the subject of the memory itself.
  — Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• Some officers may categorize it as reckless driving, excessive speeding or something else.
  — Ashley Soriano, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2022
• Some of these activities—asking the model to craft a conclusion section from scratch, say—could be considered cheating, but most were harder to categorize.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
• To avoid such instances, time masters quickly categorize problems by their importance and urgency, dealing with the most important and most urgent first.
  — Brian H. Robb, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
• Rather than assigning the entire photo one color to categorize it, the satellite dissects each pixel of the photo and assigns each one its most appropriate color on the spectrum.
  — Danya Gainor, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
• The appeals court did not rule on how any of the videos should be categorized.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Like always trying to categorize leaves and rocks and s—. Bugs though, that’s a new comfort.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The brain only needs a few milliseconds to categorize you.
  — Sara Gilbert, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• Some categorize the crime as a misdemeanor, others as a felony.
  — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• Yet, there are elements or attributes of a song that may help categorize [it].
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2022
• Part of the problem has been that videos dating back to 2016 stored on the police server have not been properly categorized.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• About 40 percent of the species studied are still categorized as threatened.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Oct. 2023
• More than a thousand are mounted on or in city buildings, with hundreds more either affixed to movable objects ranging from helicopters to trailers, or newly deployed and yet to be categorized.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024