How to Use characterization in a Sentence

characterization

noun

• The class discussed the author's characterization of the boy as someone who wanted to be accepted by others.
• The reporter was criticized for his characterization of the people of the town as poor and uneducated.
• The story has good characterization.
• News reporting requires accurate characterization.
• The jokes on the show and her characterization are similar to most of Kaling’s characters in the past.
  — Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2023
• Thousands of miles away from home, Kingsolver’s keen sense of place and her deft characterization brought me right back to the US.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
• The characterization of the Baywatch alum as the latter is nothing new to Brandon, 26.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
• Although the artist had hastily named his piece, the characterization stuck.
  — Emily Labarge, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The characterization of the meeting was also not taken well among Scalise allies, even the ones who had voted for Jordan on the floor.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2023
• While the characterizations aren’t particularly deep, the actors do their best to fill in the blanks.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
• But his grumblings, in her characterization, boiled down to wanting more control over the project.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• In the video on Monday, Mr. O’Keefe disputed the characterizations in the memo of his conduct and management style.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• Musk himself has been blunt in his characterization of the Cybertruck.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2023
• But beyond that, for all its glances and gruffness, the show is light on meaningful characterization.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
• Schillings did not answer a question about the indictment’s characterization of the firm.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
• Adding to the drama, CNN is disputing Lemon’s characterization of how the firing was carried out.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Hicks Pries is pleased the abstracts will be put back, but challenges AGU’s characterization of the scientists’ actions.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 23 Feb. 2023
• One of the pleasures in a Rian Johnson whodunnit is that while the satire of class and politics tend to be on the broad side, his plotting and characterization are more intricate.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 28 Dec. 2022
• Turns out Eugene’s mom called Yeoman from Texas to complain about the characterization.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2023
• Joel finishes the job, but not before the show brutally gives this bandit some characterization and even a name, Bryan.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 27 Feb. 2023
• In a pair of separate statements sent to me, the editor in chiefs of both The Atlantic and Puck forcefully pushed back against Siegel’s characterization of their reporters.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 25 July 2023
• In the wake of so much woke theater, here comes Chicken and Biscuits, defined by broad characterizations and slapstick humor in the style of ‘70s ethnic sitcoms.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• The characterizations of the men are quite intentional as well.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 5 Jan. 2024
• Based on an initial characterization, it was thought these planets were rocky bodies a bit larger than Earth.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2022
• Newport News police have declined to comment on the family’s characterization of how the gun was stored.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• The exact way the children died was a mystery, the sheriff said, although the office implicated the mother in its characterization of the case as a murder-suicide.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023
• The characterizations are exaggerated, the dialogue is stilted and the plot induces a fair amount of eye-rolling.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
• Zuckerberg, of course, disagrees with the characterization of his focus on AI being a pivot.
  — Alex Heath, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2024
• The popular characterization of Kalvin Phillips’s first season at Manchester City has been of time lost.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Admittedly, some of Grace’s characterization doesn’t make sense, and Weaver’s performance can’t answer the questions that will surely come up again in the Avatar sequels Cameron has planned.
  — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024