How to Use characterize in a Sentence

characterize

verb

• Farms and large flat fields characterize most of the area.
• I would characterize this as a positive change for our company.
• How would you characterize the situation?
• His personality is hard to characterize.
• She had difficulty characterizing their relationship.
• Measles is an airborne disease characterized by a high fever, a cough and a rash.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Events in the brain during REM have been well characterized, at least in humans.
  — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• After that storm sunny skies and calm winds are likely to characterize the rest of the week.
  — Austin Turner, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• The disease is characterized by a distinctive rash that starts at the hairline, moving to the head and neck.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• There are four main types of green sweat bees in Michigan and they are characterized by their color and short tongues.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2023
• And that repellent first day characterized much of what was to come.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
• The default mode was one of the first brain networks characterized by science.
  — Nora Bradford, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2024
• The paintings are now stashed in an enormous hangar that critics have characterized as a sort of Raiders of the Lousy Art warehouse.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• His wardrobe, characterized by a blend of timeless elegance and avant-garde designs, narrates the tale of an era, a genre, and the man behind the music.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 16 Jan. 2024
• The region, which sits at the northernmost point of the globe, is a unique ecosystem characterized by areas of permanent snow and ice.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
• On the exterior, the house is characterized by the use of composition shingles on the roof.
  — Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• At the halfway point of the gala, Sara Baras appeared with her tribute to Carmen Amaya, who left the audience stunned after the cante and toque that characterized the first part of the show.
  — Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2023
• Gout is a unique type of arthritis characterized by the accumulation of uric acid crystals in the joints.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• The sort of go-for-baroque moviemaking that once characterized the European nation as a lodestar of auteurism?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2024
• His writing style is characterized by its odor, fear and pH level.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
• Paul Van de Graaf, a prosecutor on the case, characterized it as one of the most significant in the state’s history.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• The founders evince none of the open hostility to the music business that characterized, say, Napster before the lawsuits that destroyed it.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2024
• The concept is characterized by sleek, angular lines and a series of skewed decks that set it apart from other behemoths on the water.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 May 2023
• Her father instilled in her a work ethic and a meticulousness that also characterized her work habits at the court.
  — Fred Barbash, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• Musk has characterized his dislike for remote work as a matter of fairness.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• Droughts are more complex because they can be characterized in many ways—by lack of rain, by soil moisture or by levels of surface water.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• The beginning and end of the cycle are characterized by less activity, which is known as the solar minimum.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
• Some, of course, are leaner, while others are looser, but a general streamlined shape is what characterizes track pants.
  — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
• According to the Mayo Clinic, the disease is characterized by the growth of granulomas — tiny groups of inflammatory cells — in any part of the body, most commonly the lungs and lymph nodes.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• So when Trump gives a speech that’s characterized as an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, the indictment is not alleging that those were crimes in themselves.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024