How to Use subcategory in a Sentence

subcategory

noun

• While some bikes in this subcategory were sluggish on the climbs, the Jekyll was smooth and efficient.
  — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• For the Memorial Day sale, all shades with the exception of the red and black shades from the napa leather subcategory are on sale.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• Comet Read was one of the original comets used to create the subcategory.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2023
• There’s a whole subcategory of shows on Netflix that didn’t get enough time to find an audience on network TV.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021
• As in her debut, Ali has fun shattering culture-clash clichés (this time in the rom-com subcategory).
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
• The company added 1 million unique items in the FMCG subcategory in the first quarter.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 18 May 2022
• Illusionist cakes, puff pastry fish, pâte à choux bun nuns, and carved apple swans make up the culinary subcategory of what’s known in the art world as trompe l’oeil, or art that tricks the eye.
  — Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appétit, 16 May 2022
• Blitz chess is a subcategory that includes any format where players have less than 10 minutes to make their moves.
  — Chazz Mair, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
• There’s an entire subcategory of gadgets to keep kids busy.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
• The Home Buyer Cost Index — a subcategory that includes home prices, mortgage and insurance costs — increased for the fourth month in a row and remains near its all-time high.
  — Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 21 June 2024
• The rise of bro-country, currently the genre’s highest-selling subcategory, has made that point of entry feel even more narrow.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Deep tournament runs are now the standard for a program that was once thought of as a subcategory to basketball at Indiana.
  — Stefan Krajisnik, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Mar. 2021
• Chicago was second in the nightlife subcategory and first in the convention center subcategory, which measures the size of the largest convention center in the city.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024
• The messy hot aunt is a subcategory of the better known character the cool aunt or the fun aunt, a child-free woman who graces beleaguered parent friends and siblings with her eternally youthful presence.
  — Glamour, 20 May 2022
• Every pair of earbuds received a score for each subcategory.
  — Michael Nuñez, CNN Underscored, 24 Mar. 2021
• Smith revealed that more of their inspiration was drawn from the broader world of visual novels than from the specific subcategory of dating sims.
  — Reece Rogers, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
• By that metric, Bruno Schulz was a genius, albeit one belonging to that special subcategory known as the writer’s writer, the kind whose brilliance is most evident to his peers.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• Perhaps the most shadowy subcategory of all was colonizing crew, the solo male migrants who did not settle down and marry white women.
  — James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
• Each subcategory within the main category will have its own top 100 bestseller list.
  — Yasmin Walter, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• If the high stress, high stakes drama of playoff hockey already deserves its own subcategory of intensity, there is a special subsection for one-goal games.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
• Then there’s a subcategory of videos mocking the basic template, where users shower in Carhartt zip-ups, a hooded sweatshirt and even a Domino’s delivery jacket, only to, predictably, end up totally soaked.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• What distinguishes Israeli whisky as a subcategory of the spirit?
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
• There is an entire subcategory of office memoirs written by C.E.O.s and executives, but these tend to be understood as business books.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2024
• That subcategory of the market has enjoyed outsized returns over the last decade, outperforming most other asset classes.
  — Royce Zimmerman, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• Whether the researchers were trying to create a superspreading bioweapon or merely doing research into its features is a subcategory of this theory.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
• And then there’s even a third subcategory of toxins, for those who appreciate being as accurate as possible: toxungens.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2017
• The score was based on the average of a business environment sub-category, an employment sub-category and a growth subcategory.
  — Sydney Carruth, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2023
• There are exceptions, of course—among them, a subcategory of smaller humanoids that includes research and hobby humanoids that aren’t really intended to do anything practical.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• If natural wine felt experimental and cool, its zero-zero subcategory feels even more so.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2021
• The uncertainty has spawned a subcategory of specialty agencies and NIL marketplaces as well as multiple lawsuits, including one in which a group of athletes argued that they should be classified as employees of their school.
  — Patrick Coffee, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024