How to Use identify with in a Sentence

identify with

verb
  • Our hope is that the whole family can sit down on the couch and watch the show and identify with it.
    — Amy Amatangelo, Parents, 1 June 2026
  • So that was a statement in the song that everybody could identify with.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Countless readers over the years have identified with the power of that scene.
    — Tahneer Oksman, NPR, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The eagles can be identified with an orange or black band on their leg, Moore added.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Starbucks also sold a place people could identify with.
    — Nick El Hajj, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Most of us can identify with the universal recipe for success that was preached to us during our formative years.
    — Rodney C. Adkins, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • People who can identify with the victims are more likely to follow news about them, and that can set off a cycle of distress.
    — Makenzie Boucher, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Audiences recognize it, and many can identify with it.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Coastal Caviar is uniquely Kelly, and her customers identify with her.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Hoffler said Jackson loved all sports and identified with the athletes who fought for equality.
    — Cliff Brunt, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Nelson identifies with his clientele.
    — Mark Davis, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In addition, electrical issues have been identified with the switch that controls the pump.
    — Ross Dimattei, CBS News, 5 May 2026
  • Both of them identify with the misogynistic incel movement, which has been linked to prior mass shootings.
    — Anna Schecter, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • Fire investigators said there were multiple start points identified with the fire that was on private land.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Tom Hulce is daffy and delicious as the airhead prodigy Mozart, but few of us can identify with that kind of genius.
    — Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The government wanted to identify with a success story.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Brazilians also identified with the man, imperfect of body and of mind, a mortal — so crushingly mortal — among the idols.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • These changes really resonate with children who can identify with characters who look like them and whose family life reflects their own.
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 June 2026
  • Nietzsche says somewhere that the illusion of willpower rests on our tendency to identify with the part of our soul that commands, not the part that obeys.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Paul Sluder, 78, who doesn't identify with a political party, used to work for a credit union.
    — Noam Levey, NPR, 28 June 2026
  • This result prompted the lab to run a confirmation test, which determined that Alexa (who asked to be identified with a pseudonym) did not have the virus.
    — Lauren Schneider, Scientific American, 9 June 2026
  • The 14-year-old fled the scene but was later identified with the help of witnesses and taken into custody, authorities said.
    — Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • More Latin Americans now identify with the right than at any time over the last two decades, according to polling firm Latinobarómetro.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
  • The trend may partly reflect how deeply people want to identify with personality types and, in the process, gain some insights into an uncertain future.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Brendon rose to fame in the late 1990s as the loyal, wisecracking sidekick on the cult hit and remained closely identified with the role throughout his life.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Producer Ruby Chen noted that the film’s grounding in the rhythms of daily life enables viewers to identify with either figure.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • Among people who identified with the Democrats, 80% had unfavorable opinions of Israel.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Trump did not identify with whom the administration is negotiating.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • David is not only accused of murdering his toddler but of beating him to death with a baseball bat to the point where the body is only able to be identified with DNA.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Hockney ultimately headed to Los Angeles, the city that is most identified with his work and where he was wowed by the sun and the suntans, the swimming pools and the swimmers.
    — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026

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