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.
• 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
• Philipp Heck, Valdes was able to classify it as part of Vesta.
  — Mariah Rush, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
• Still, the terms faux and fine are often used to classify jewels.
  — Jill Newman, Town & Country, 17 May 2022
• 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
• Solar flares are classified on a 4-class scale, and as the scale goes up in class, each flare is ten times stronger than the class beneath it.
  — Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 3 Jan. 2025
• Threat level: The CDC classifies the risk to the general public as low.
  — Christine Clarridge, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Many types of true lilies are classified based on specific traits, such as bloom shape and growth.
  — Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2024
• On the Beaufort Scale, winds of these strengths are classified as gale to violent storm.
  — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
• Call me old-fashioned but the Aughts don’t classify as vintage.
  — Vogue, 21 June 2022
• Part of what makes stealthing a complex issue is the question of how to classify it.
  — Sara Stewart, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
• Some portions of the state are classified as being in an extreme drought.
  — Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• San Diego police at first did not classify her as a person at risk, but that changed last week.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Under state law, rape is classified as a felony punishable by three to eight years in prison.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024
• 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
• There are a lot of chargers out there that classify themselves as fast chargers.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 8 Nov. 2021
• His father wasn’t concerned with the opinions of critics who tried to classify his work.
  — Shauna Stuart | [e-mail], 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
• It’s being classified as a lower-body injury for Eriksson Ek.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025
• Analysts roundly agree that attention has helped the AfD, parts of which have been classified as extremist by German intelligence.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2025