identify

In a sentence

Six example sentences with identify, each labelled with its topic.

• Rangers can identify each wolf by the pattern on its throat, without ever fitting a collar or tag.

  Environment

• Children learn to identify anger in a face long before they can name the emotion or explain what caused it.

  Psychology

• Curators could identify the church in the negative from its bell tower, which was rebuilt in a different shape later.

  Photography

• Trained listeners can identify a chord by its color alone, naming a minor seventh before the pianist lifts her hands.

  Music

• The app can identify a song from three seconds of humming, matching the rise and fall of the tune against millions.

  Technology

• Scouts identify a future starter by how he moves without the ball, long before his scoring numbers catch up.

  Basketball

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