CATEGORY in a Sentence

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For CATEGORY, below is one of 25 sentences:
Reports from every clinic, doctor, and pharmacy get broken into broad syndrome categories rather than specific diseases.

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 Meanings and Examples of CATEGORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
category
 n.  group, class, or collection of things sharing a common attribute
Classic Sentence:
1  This category represented the more respectable officials of the town.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  In the second category Pierre reckoned himself and others like him, seeking and vacillating, who had not yet found in Freemasonry a straight and comprehensible path, but hoped to do so.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
3  Finally, to the fourth category also a great many Brothers belonged, particularly those who had lately joined.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
4  Scarlett had cast her lot with the enemy and, whatever her birth and family connections, she was now in the category of a turncoat, a nigger lover, a traitor, a Republican-- and a Scallawag.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  Well, I have no doubt that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
6  A man does not like to prove such a truth; Byron excepted from the category, jealousy.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  Goodman Fauchelevent, the ex-notary, belonged to the category of peasants who have assurance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
8  He divided the Brothers he knew into four categories.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
9  Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalised autobiography.
2  The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category.
3  The current diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa reflect this evolutionary process but they have yet to achieve the final category.
4  We have created a special category for part-time workers.
5  Some have therefore concluded that behaviour in this category can not be termed altruism at all.
6  Remember, all cars are priced, booked and controlled by car category, not by car maker or model.
7  Does there exists a sort of world-music category for comedy, in which a stand-up of indeterminate pigmentation makes jokes that appeal equally to a member of the Taliban and to a bespoke-vermouth bottler from Victoria?
8  For your convenience, arena locations have been divided into two categories; East and West.
9  A jury of music specialists will choose the winners for different world regions and in the categories of Newcomer and Boundary Crossing, Club Global, and Album of the Year.
10  Reports from every clinic, doctor, and pharmacy get broken into broad syndrome categories rather than specific diseases.
11  There are three categories -- short story, poetry, and creative nonfiction -- and $60000 of prize money courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts.
12  Materials in the center are organized into three distinct categories: reference, child-use, and staff development.
13  There are different categories of books in the library.
14  There are three categories of accommodation - standard, executive and deluxe.
15  The possibilities are enormous; other leaders may reveal other categories.