How to Use identification in a Sentence

identification

noun
  • A member of the family was brought in for identification of the body.
  • The birds are tagged for easy identification.
  • You need two forms of identification.
  • The police have made a positive identification of the suspect.
  • New users will need their photo identification to verify their identity.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The big picture: This year's presidential election will be the first major election in which identification will be required to cast a ballot.
    Lucille Sherman, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The identification of a Ford F-150 spotted around the crime scene at the time of the shooting led to the arrest, Smith said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • At its heart has been a robust campaign to deliver every citizen a unique identification number, called the Aadhaar.
    Hari Kumar, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Thanks to facial reconstruction technology, a clay model was produced that led to the identification of not one, but two sets of unidentified remains.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The team tested these designs against a diverse range of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, which led to the identification of six successful drug candidates.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Was there a lot of after-the-fact identification in the editing of those sorts of details?
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Many beer fests are for folks who are 21 years and older with proof of identification, and they are held rain or shine.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
  • This is the essential part of the family tree that led to the identification of Charles Webb.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The families of the missing men are now awaiting the results of the identification process.
    Callie Cassick, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The eight counts were based on the initial identification of eight of the 18 dead, and the number of counts was likely to go up, state police Col. William Ross said.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, that’s not the case with all identification numbers.
    Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The man was pronounced dead at the scene and officers did not find any identification on him, the release says.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 May 2024
  • This led to the identification of the woman as Suzanne Kjellenberg.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Bring a form of photo identification that has your name on it, like a driver's license or state ID card.
    Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, the numbers are resin identification codes used to denote what type of plastic the item is.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 5 June 2024
  • The suspect had no identification on him and refused to provide his name to police.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 24 July 2023
  • There was no identification found with the body, either.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • He was found wandering the town square with no identification and with an unsigned letter clutched in his hand.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Sep. 2024
  • While the font is large to make for easy identification, our tester thought the font size took away from the design a little (but understood its importance).
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Phillips has worn his father's identification tags on the campaign trail.
    Abc News, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The worker said agents arrived around 9:00 p.m. and asked employees for identification, asked about plant sanitation and stayed in the plant most of the night.
    Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The bodies of the dead migrants were moved to a morgue outside Athens, where DNA samples and facial photographs will be taken to start the identification process.
    Derek Gatopoulos and Nicholas Paphitis, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • That photo is then compared to the ID in an effort to make sure the person flying has proper identification.
    Matt Novak / Gizmodo, Quartz, 3 May 2024
  • At the time of this article, there has been no official identification of the substance.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 8 Aug. 2024
  • For the first time this year, Ohio voters were required to show photo identification to cast ballots in person.
    Summer Ballentine, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2023

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