How to Use classify in a Sentence

classify

verb

• The online system can classify books by subject.
• Students will be learning about the ways scientists classify animals.
• Court records for the case are classified, and the names of those arrested have not been released.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• The body doesn’t know or care, after all, how a substance is classified.
  — WIRED, 31 July 2023
• 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
• At this point, the case is still classified as a suspicious death and remains active.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 31 Jan. 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
• The United States classifies Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2023
• But included along with these run-of-the-mill items were hundreds of documents marked classified.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 June 2023
• Nearly 40 percent of the country lives in poverty, close to 14 percent in what is classified as extreme.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• The incident was classified as a hit and run, according to a police report.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• The assassin caterpillar is known as the most venomous caterpillar in the world and was classified by Guinness World Records in 2014.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• The investigative report was over 6,700 pages long, much of it classified.
  — Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Many of the documents were marked classified; many were kept in cardboard boxes that were moved around among a ballroom, a bathroom, and a closet at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
• The court hearing was held behind closed doors because the materials of the criminal case are classified.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Under a 1994 law, dietary supplements are classified as food, not as drugs.
  — Emily Hemendinger, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2024
• The Truther was subsequently classified by the Draft board as 1-A: available for military service.
  — Rory Feehan, SPIN, 9 Nov. 2023
• This is beyond anything that people can classify as truly pent up.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• If a business wanted to classify someone as an independent contractor, A, B, and C all had to be true.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• Ideally, one day there will be a simple test to classify patients and help doctors find the most effective treatment, Wiendl said.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 27 Mar. 2024
• Cincinnati have only managed to win one of their first four games, which appears to have prompted Burrow to classify the Week 5 game against the Arizona Cardinals as a must-win.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2023
• It should be noted that many of Disney’s modest wins or even outright flops would be classified as smash successes for its rivals.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
• Trees are easy to classify as evergreen or deciduous—some lose their leaves, some don't—based on their looks alone, but flowers aren't so simple.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 2 Aug. 2023
• Matter of fact, the default position is always to classify, number one.
  — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Convex pentagons that tile the plane were trickier to classify.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• At the time of the report, Jackson was classified by the Navy as a rear admiral (lower half), a one-star admiral that is distinct from the two-star rear admiral position.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• Three documents marked classified are located in desks in Trump's office, prosecutors said, and 76 more were found in the storage room.
  — Robert Legare, Arden Farhi, CBS News, 9 June 2023
• The chart company publishes the ranking to show which tunes classified as hard rock–a subgenre of rock–actually sold the most copies in the country in each tracking period.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Many of these purchases, the government says, were classified by Hunter Biden as business expenses.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024