How to Use stratify in a Sentence

stratify

verb

• The top of the East seems to have stratified in that way.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 27 July 2017
• Three groups, stratified among the four front-runners, six in the next tier, and 10 basement dwellers.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 18 July 2019
• But what caused those initial high melt rates, which first caused the waters to stratify?
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
• Without air currents to move it, the heat will stratify in the highest places as stay there, which warms the stove room nicely but doesn't help with the rest of the house.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 19 Sep. 2019
• Kaushal said lakes in the Midwest tend to stratify during the summer and then mix when the weather gets cooler.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• One method to stratify milkweed seeds is to place them on a moist paper towel in a plastic baggie.
  — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2023
• But in years with low ice cover, the lakes warm up faster and stratify earlier, Fujisaki Manome said.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023
• Ford, who is part of the team that stratified these trials, is trying to weigh the risks and benefits of slowing or halting trials for at least 2 months.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2020
• The seeds stratify over the winter, which encourages them to germinate next spring.
  — Anna Groves, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
• For now, the field has stratified into the billionaire and the socialist, and everyone else.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2020
• For one thing, post-stratifying on party ID is something that any pollster can do.
  — Andrew Gelman, Washington Post, 17 July 2017
• Alarmingly, the study also found all the algorithms were worse at stratifying risk for Black men and women than for white.
  — Ambar Castillo, STAT, 22 Feb. 2023
• The melting water stratifies the ocean column, with cold fresh water trapped at the surface and warmer water sitting below.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
• The work was precarious and racially-stratified, but the auto industry paved the way to the middle-class for black Detroiters.
  — Tammy Joyner, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2020
• To increase efficiency, the water in the underground tank is stratified -- the hot water is on top, and cooler water on the bottom.
  — Laurel Andrews, adn.com, 18 Oct. 2015
• The heat also causes the waters to stratify sooner—meaning that the colder, heavier water will sink below the warmer, lighter water.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
• The net continued to grow as the American economy stratified.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• Earlier efforts to find a signature without using AI failed, the paper shows, and patients’ symptoms did not help to stratify them.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2020
• Of the top two candidates, those under age 50 were much more likely to say Sanders is the strongest candidate to face Trump, and Biden was considered best positioned by those over 50, but his support is more stratified across the age groups.
  — Kendall Karson, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2020
• The helium and hydrogen layers will sputter out and reignite, mix together, and stratify.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
• The results of the study were also stratified by ethnicity, gender, age and pain diagnosis.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 13 Apr. 2018
• As Frank sees it, the EDC world is the convergence of many smaller crowds, such as flashlight or firearms enthusiasts, which are themselves stratified into different use cases.
  — Steven T. Wright, Vox, 24 July 2019
• This first stage gradually phased out as hunter-gatherer groups gave way to societies stratified into rulers and subjects.
  — Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
• San Antonio is rapidly growing but its demographics are stratified in a number of ways.
  — Krista Torralva, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
• The goal of the study will be to go beyond symptoms like headache, dizziness or confusion, which are often used to classify brain injuries today, and begin to stratify damage based on the type and extent of physical damage in the brain.
  — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Race was used to categorize different groups of people based on skin color, and to stratify the different groups into distinct class structures.
  — Kelley Fanto Deetz, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2019
• The industry stratifies customers in a manner rather similar to airlines.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• As in Chile, an all-private system could just stratify society into something resembling the status quo, whereby the best and most elite schools would cost far more than the tuition vouchers provided.
  — Julie Halpert, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2018
• Indeed, in its most recent trial, Lilly stratified patients by their level of tau, which is thought to be related to beta amyloid, into groups with intermediate and higher levels of tau.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
• When the surface water reaches a certain temperature, the lakes will stratify, creating layers that differ in their temperature, nutrients and oxygen levels.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2023

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024