How to Use characterize in a Sentence

characterize

verb

• Farms and large flat fields characterize most of the area.
• I would characterize this as a positive change for our company.
• How would you characterize the situation?
• His personality is hard to characterize.
• She had difficulty characterizing their relationship.
• Looking for a unique scent to characterize your summer?
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 May 2022
• Feature space is the group of features used to characterize data.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Suffocation, shame, and hatred are the words that characterize those days.
  — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Unbearable droughts, sea-level rise so large as to break levees, and unpredictable famines will characterize life.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 May 2022
• These problems are characterized by algorithms that can solve them in a time that increases polynomially with the input size.
  — Suvarna Krishnan, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• Too little sleep is also associated with the buildup of amyloid, a key protein that can cause tangles in the brain that characterize some form of dementia.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 May 2022
• While relaxed intestines might sound like a recipe for the loose, speedy bowel movements that characterize diarrhea, that isn’t what actually happens.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
• After a market crashes, the trust and laxity that characterize the boom period get reversed, Galbraith wrote.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 17 May 2022
• Sign Up This week’s Alabama film study examines the Tide’s collapse on the road, which was characterized by season-long problems.
  — Kennington Smith Iii, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
• That section’s regs are unique in their heavy reliance on flexible economic and financial concepts and general avoidance of the kind of prescriptive rules that characterize other tax regs.
  — Ryan Finley, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• On the exterior, the house is characterized by the use of tiles on the roof.
  — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
• That would have been a fair way to characterize the Cowboys for the better part of two decades.
  — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
• Measles is an airborne disease characterized by a high fever, a cough and a rash.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Braun’s road to his third opening day in the NBA has been characterized by winning.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2024
• Events in the brain during REM have been well characterized, at least in humans.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• After that storm sunny skies and calm winds are likely to characterize the rest of the week.
  — Austin Turner, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• The disease is characterized by a distinctive rash that starts at the hairline, moving to the head and neck.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• There are four main types of green sweat bees in Michigan and they are characterized by their color and short tongues.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• And that repellent first day characterized much of what was to come.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
• The default mode was one of the first brain networks characterized by science.
  — Nora Bradford, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2024
• The paintings are now stashed in an enormous hangar that critics have characterized as a sort of Raiders of the Lousy Art warehouse.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• James says the faces of her subjects lift off the page or canvas and steer her on how to characterize her depictions.
  — Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• El-Badry and co set out to characterize the nature of this companion.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
• Gout Gout is a type of arthritis characterized by sudden and severe pain, redness, and swelling in the joints.
  — Lauren Panoff, Mph, Rd, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2024
• While much of the distrust and anxiety that characterized the U.S.–Egyptian relationship a decade ago has faded, some irritants remain.
  — Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024