How to Use catalog in a Sentence

catalog

1 of 2 noun
  • The band played many songs from their catalog of hits.
  • That’s one of my favorite songs in our catalog.
    — David Chiu, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Their catalog is rock, but leans toward folk, blues and pop.
    — Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The three weren't in any catalogs of local whales.
    — CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • By the end of the summer my catalogs were tattered and worn.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025
  • So far the county has approved more than two dozen of the catalog’s plans.
    — Calmatters, Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • When shopping your favorite bulb catalog, take time to read the fine print.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The main page will show current events and projects, along with a catalog of services.
    — Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2023
  • In fact, Logitech’s whole catalog of car-sim stuff is on sale this week.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 24 June 2026
  • That range still defines his catalog.
    — Keegan Brady, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Own the workflow, not the catalog.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Shakira stuck around in her World Cup catalog for one more song.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 21 June 2026
  • There is a lot of amazing music in this catalog that this part of the story doesn’t get to.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • And 100 years from now, these movies will be part of our heritage and our catalog.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Just make a design, upload it to a provider’s catalog, and add it to your online store.
    — Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Taylor Swift’s catalog has enjoyed quite the wild ride over the past few weeks.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Some even had rich catalogs outside the mainstream.
    — Ryan Brennan april 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The band unifies all of his catalog into this new universe.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Terms of the sale weren’t disclosed, though the catalog is worth billions of dollars.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
  • The catalog of unrequited hopes and hearts is a long one.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • But what fans often remember is the clip, not the catalog.
    — Sam Saideman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • This is the power of catalog and ownership — not just hits.
    — Obi Asika, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • One of the many gifts that Peart left behind was a catalog sturdy enough to hold the weight of grief.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026
  • The center has published a catalog of the mother-calf pairs.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • Janski orders a mix of new and old through catalogs.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • All of the catalog will be written by the watchmakers.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The book is available again and listed in the library’s catalog.
    — Saul Pink, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Items from Sam’s Club’s catalog will launch soon after.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • But the finer points of the Slay obit were less a resume than a catalog of whimsy.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • This catalog is not an exhaustive list.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026

catalog

2 of 2 verb
  • The chart catalogs the results of each test.
  • They use the computer to catalog books.
  • Tschorn is on a mission to visit and catalog all of these spots across the city.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • The report goes on to catalog the data these apps were able to harvest.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Many came from scientists who had built large images catalogs over the years.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Then the artifacts that have been unearthed will need to be cataloged.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • More than half of what scientists are pulling out of that frozen ground has never been cataloged.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The ancient city is now resubmerged, but researchers were able to catalog much of the site.
    — Megan Marples, CNN, 20 June 2022
  • Their task that day was to catalog the organisms living in the grassland.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Researchers have found and cataloged ancient rock art at 16 sites in Brazil.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In 1985, Christie’s cataloged the work as a Freud.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 2 June 2026
  • Leavy catalogs this wistfulness not in the spirit of hand-wringing, but more as an earnest problem solver.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • When a librarian saw it, the staff decided to catalog the book.
    — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Once everything has been cataloged, scientists can study where these animals fit on the tree of life.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Patrick sends off a warning shot against domestic violence, cataloging a litany of red flags in this dark, gripping song.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2023
  • And that’s just what Samantha was able to catalog and capture of what Ben had made over the course of a single week.
    — Stacey Leasca, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2025
  • But that was back before computers had mapped every valley and cataloged ever face.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Once in hand, the library would sort and catalog the materials for public access.
    — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The legislation goes on to catalog all the reasons why rent control is a bad policy.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • The new law requires districts to catalog every book on their shelves and create a formal review process for complaints.
    — Nirvi Shah, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Looking for a better, more secure solution for cataloging all of your passwords?
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 19 July 2023
  • Marin’s work at the library consisted of hours of cataloging materials each week.
    — The Arizona Republic, 28 Jan. 2024
  • At times the project of cataloging, or indeed defining, the threads of centuries of free thinking can verge on overly ambitious.
    — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The plan is to catalog two thirds of the asteroids larger than 140 meters across in that volume of space.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Four still were listed in school library catalogs as of Wednesday afternoon.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The 123-year-old tradition brings bird-watchers of all stripes together to help catalog bird species in their area.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And the surviving documents may not be well organized or cataloged.
    — ABC News, 24 May 2026
  • Several are now cataloged, but because these galaxies are so faint and hard to find, many more probably lurk out there, as yet unseen.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 May 2026
  • Wiens emphasized that cataloging species is the essential first step toward protecting them.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The precedents for cyberwar have been hard to catalog, in part because the agents that carried them out have been difficult to identify.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022

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