CLASSIFICATION in a Sentence

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Example sentences for CLASSIFICATION, such as:

1. Lily smiled at her classification of her friends.
2. Science is the systematic classification of experience.
3. The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
4. But the trouble is, that this strange advantage does not fall under any classification and is not in place in any list.

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 Meanings and Examples of CLASSIFICATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
classification
 n.  assigning to a class or category
Classic Sentence:
1  Lily smiled at her classification of her friends.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
2  The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
3  Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
4  But the trouble is, that this strange advantage does not fall under any classification and is not in place in any list.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
5  They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  What matters is, that this advantage is remarkable from the very fact that it breaks down all our classifications, and continually shatters every system constructed by lovers of mankind for the benefit of mankind.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
Example Sentence:
1  The US government agency responsible to classify viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification.
2  The US government agency responsible for classifying viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification when it was informed that it had been widely circulated.
3  Science is the systematic classification of experience.