How to Use classify in a Sentence
classify
verb- The online system can classify books by subject.
- Students will be learning about the ways scientists classify animals.
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Voice is often the first cue that a stranger may use to classify someone by gender.
— Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2022 -
Yet these people might not classify any negative response to such events as climate anxiety.
— Wired, 12 July 2022 -
Threat level: The CDC classifies the risk to the general public as low.
— Christine Clarridge, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024 -
There’s wide opposition to the proposal to classify gas, as well as nuclear power, as green energy.
— New York Times, 5 July 2022 -
It's classified as a complex carbohydrate, meaning it's digested more slowly by the body than simple or refined carbs such as white sugar.
— Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2024 -
So this was a way to classify specifically white people in these categories of underweight, normal, overweight, obese.
— Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 19 July 2022 -
Of those, the vast majority were classified as complete diphallia (two penises), and 50 displayed pseudodiphallia.
— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2024 -
On April 19, the jail classified Masten as a fall risk.
— James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024 -
Court records for the case are classified, and the names of those arrested have not been released.
— Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023 -
About 90% of the students are classified as low-income at the Title I school.
— Corie Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024 -
The body doesn’t know or care, after all, how a substance is classified.
— WIRED, 31 July 2023 -
It’s classified as a offspeed pitch, but Skenes can throw it at ninety-five miles per hour.
— Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024 -
Less than 8% of the state is now classified as being in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
— Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023 -
The results led officials to classify the death as a homicide, although the cause of death has not been released.
— Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2022 -
At this point, the case is still classified as a suspicious death and remains active.
— Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2024 -
Two of the victims whose cases were not classified as hate crimes agreed to be interviewed.
— Simone Weichselbaum, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024 -
Third is that there may be too many items being labeled classified.
— James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023 -
His father wasn’t concerned with the opinions of critics who tried to classify his work.
— Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2022 -
So far this year, about 35% of arrests in the city have been of people classified as homeless, according to city records.
— Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024 -
More recently, astronomers classified Betelgeuse as a red giant, a star that is near the end of its life.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023 -
In it, the state argues that the tech giants are breaking the law by failing to classify drivers as employees.
— Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023 -
In the new plan, workers had to classify themselves as remote or hybrid.
— Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 June 2024 -
It's classified into two distinct viral groups, called clades: clade I and clade II.
— Reuters, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024 -
The United States classifies Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.
— Bradford Betz, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2023 -
That’s sparked a lot of debate about what activities should be classified as an Olympic sport.
— Jack Hillcox, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024 -
But included along with these run-of-the-mill items were hundreds of documents marked classified.
— The Editors, National Review, 10 June 2023 -
Acoustic buoys will be moored in Chile as part of the Blue Boat Initiative and equipped with software that can identify and classify four species of whales.
— Nell Lewis; Video By John Lewis, CNN, 26 Sep. 2022 -
That might mean many amateur forms of pornography would no longer need to be classified.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
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