How to Use classify in a Sentence

classify

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • Many beauty and tech companies classify skin shades based on what's known as the Fitzpatrick scale.
    — Rishi Iyengar, CNN, 11 May 2022
  • 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
  • Evolving dietary patterns The study’s findings suggest squirrels might be best classified as opportunistic omnivores based on their willingness to hunt and consume live prey, particularly when there is an abundant supply.
    — Julianna Bragg, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024

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