Example Sentences

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Before Monsters University, I'd have classed Monsters, Inc – the 2001 adventure about a pair of bogeymen employed by a corporation to scare up energy from human kids' screams – as untouchable.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2013

If you really want to catalogue neurons in their many forms—somewhat like the way scientists have classed living things into families and species and subspecies—you’re going to need a lot more categories.

From Scientific American • May 16, 2012

If he had realized this, he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a “Not-hawk”—that is, anything from a wren to a pheasant—and continued on his way up the slope.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

I wonder in what tribe or genus the learned men of that country, had there been any to see the two strange creatures careering through the cold wintry air, would have classed them!

From Christmas Tree Land by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)

For, if prohibition had never existed, labor would have classed itself in accordance with the laws of trade, and no displacement would have taken place.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace