How to Use identify in a Sentence

identify

verb

• She identified the dog as her lost pet.
• The corpse was identified on the basis of dental records.
• They could not identify the source of the quotation.
• The witness positively identified the suspect in the crime.
• We began by identifying what we needed for the job.
• He was able to correctly identify the mushroom.
• We need to identify the causes of unemployment.
• They had no difficulty in identifying the problem.
• Mark was the one to identify the body.
  — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
• The driver died at the scene and has not yet been identified.
  — Briseida Holguin, CBS News, 17 May 2026
• What can be helpful is to identify the source.
  — Helen Dennis, Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026
• The person has not been identified at this time.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2026
• The victims have not been identified at this time.
  — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 28 June 2026
• Hemmert wrote that her friend, who has not been identified, was shot in the back.
  — Olivia Alexander, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
• Doing this in the large helps to identify what works and doesn’t work in the long run.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
• No suspects have been identified in the case.
  — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
• The agent, who has not been identified, fired five times but did not hit the suspect.
  — James Powel, USA Today, 3 May 2026
• Three weeks passed before the pathogen was identified.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• It has been identified in 21 states.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
• The man was not identified by police.
  — Sofia Saric june 21, Miami Herald, 21 June 2026
• It is said that the border on the plates helps identify the potter.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2022
• The victim has not yet been identified.
  — CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
• The victim has not been identified yet.
  — Jose Fabian, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2026
• That victim has not yet been identified.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
• Mesa police said the person who died in the fire still has not been identified.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2024
• The man has not been publicly identified.
  — Jason Green, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026
• The team also wants to try to identify which hominin made the stone tools found at the site.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
• With each emergence comes a chance for mushroom hunters to identify new species.
  — Rachel Bujalski Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• Does this test fail to identify many people who have cancer?
  — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
• So far, 55 of those who perished in the crash have been identified.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025