How to Use subcategory in a Sentence

subcategory

noun
  • No wonder the city is tied for first in our Restaurants subcategory.
    — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 6 May 2025
  • And in the subcategory of heavy rare earths, China is the sole world producer of six.
    — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • While some bikes in this subcategory were sluggish on the climbs, the Jekyll was smooth and efficient.
    — Outside Online, 27 May 2022
  • Comet Read was one of the original comets used to create the subcategory.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • Blitz chess is a subcategory that includes any format where players have less than 10 minutes to make their moves.
    — Chazz Mair, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • As in her debut, Ali has fun shattering culture-clash clichés (this time in the rom-com subcategory).
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • That seems clearly to be a subcategory of the sort of natural changes within that organism’s life span.
    — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Another subcategory of quality is the look and feel of these specials.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The rise of bro-country, currently the genre’s highest-selling subcategory, has made that point of entry feel even more narrow.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • There is a specific subcategory of magic romance books deal gently with death, that thing that is as much a part of love and life as any amount of comedy, tropes and beats.
    — Audrey Goldberg Ruoff, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • For the Memorial Day sale, all shades with the exception of the red and black shades from the napa leather subcategory are on sale.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
  • Moon was a catalyst for this movement, inspiring a new oral beauty subcategory.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a whole subcategory of shows on Netflix that didn’t get enough time to find an audience on network TV.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Deep tournament runs are now the standard for a program that was once thought of as a subcategory to basketball at Indiana.
    — Stefan Krajisnik, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Illusionist cakes, puff pastry fish, pâte à choux bun nuns, and carved apple swans make up the culinary subcategory of what’s known in the art world as trompe l’oeil, or art that tricks the eye.
    — Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appétit, 16 May 2022
  • Simply use color as a subcategory.
    — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Each subcategory within the main category will have its own top 100 bestseller list.
    — Yasmin Walter, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps the most shadowy subcategory of all was colonizing crew, the solo male migrants who did not settle down and marry white women.
    — James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Smith revealed that more of their inspiration was drawn from the broader world of visual novels than from the specific subcategory of dating sims.
    — Reece Rogers, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • If natural wine felt experimental and cool, its zero-zero subcategory feels even more so.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Aug. 2021
  • If the high stress, high stakes drama of playoff hockey already deserves its own subcategory of intensity, there is a special subsection for one-goal games.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
  • Our granola bites are a new shape and format for a legacy category that’s all bars, and essentially created a subcategory.
    — Dave Knox, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • What distinguishes Israeli whisky as a subcategory of the spirit?
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • That subcategory of the market has enjoyed outsized returns over the last decade, outperforming most other asset classes.
    — Royce Zimmerman, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Other This catchall subcategory is dedicated to projects that do not fit into any of the previous six subcategories.
    — Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Rye was considered an obscure subcategory of that already-unpopular niche.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Chicago was second in the nightlife subcategory and first in the convention center subcategory, which measures the size of the largest convention center in the city.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024
  • Whether the researchers were trying to create a superspreading bioweapon or merely doing research into its features is a subcategory of this theory.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • The number of nominees will be proportional to submissions in each subcategory.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
  • This increase was twofold, driven in part by sell-in shipments to Sephora North America, as well as a strong performance in the lip subcategory.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 23 Feb. 2026

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