Verb (used with object), : Rich metaphors characterize his poetry. ,He characterized her in a few well-chosen words. ,to characterize him as a coward.    From Dictionary.com. 

(The term characterized the white French settlers and the Arab Jews in Algeria L. W.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Chronicle - Headlines] Reference

The ever-bizarre Michelle Malkin characterized the memorials thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [one was too much for me, too] Reference

Saskin characterized the league's revenue-sharing proposal "as very mysterious and scant in terms of detail.".    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Players say no to latest owners' proposal] Reference

If you had, and had actually looked at it with a critical eye, you might have understood why David Ray Griffin characterized it as a ‘571-page lie’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Cliff May: National Review Bloggers Are ‘Fighting a War’ That Is ‘Equally Consequential’ To U.S. Troops in Combat] Reference

Robert Heinlein characterized revolution as “a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individuals.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [» Viva la revolution heinleinblog] Reference

In a few moments the "madam" as the current word characterized this type of woman, appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier, a novel] Reference

In a few moments the “madam” as the current word characterized this type of woman, appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Financier] Reference

Wise or waggish, flamboyant or foolhardy, indomitable or insubordinate—no single word characterized Miss Valentine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hearts] Reference

The scientists noted female giant pandas in a fertile stage gave longer calls characterized by a higher jitter and harshness.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

A solemn expression characterized the feelings of St. Aubert; tears often came to his eyes, and he frequently walked away from his companions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference

A dispirited expression characterized the countenance usually serene and happy, and between her brows a perpendicular line marked the advent of anxious foreboding.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference

There was no additional voiceover or text which "characterized" anything.    From Wordnik.com.  ["What's happened to John McCain? He's running the sleaziest ads ever. Truly vile."] Reference

Many of them have coordinate meanings, such as characterized by, used by, designed for, derived from.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: HOBGOBLINS.] Reference

I said that Cityism was "characterized" by contemporary architecture, but even in that I probably went too far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Gruber: A Fourth Urbanism, Part 4: More on the "Why" of Cityism] Reference

There will be continued emphasis on firm antitrust law enforcement such as characterized Eisenhower's first term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Significant Four Years Ahead] Reference

You ever notice how both Hillary and Obama are 'characterized': the first 'woman' president, the first 'black' president?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama gets NARAL endorsement] Reference

Hemisphere such as characterized many of the mild interglacial epochs as long as the earth passed its perihelion point in Winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

I think Mike you kind of characterized it as early ramps of new programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

"Let's dig at once," replied Metzar, with no show of returning courage such as characterized his companion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Trail] Reference

Monastic life ripened also into a grand system of penance, and expiatory rites, such as characterized oriental asceticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

When fairly settled upon Bohemia Manor, the Labadists undertook communal modes of life and industry, such as characterized them at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680] Reference

A happy spontaneity such as characterized the work of T. E.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke] Reference

I sometimes get characterized as anti-testing, which is inaccurate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reform School] Reference

The Clinton era has been characterized by contrived political sentiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics In A Macaroni Era] Reference

Biden has been incorrectly characterized as a dove who wants to pull out of Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inconvenient Truth Teller] Reference

The situation in Chechnya, they assured us, was characterized by "normalization and stabilization.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chechnya: The Official Story] Reference

As much as three quarters of all network TV stories last time could be characterized as horse-race coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voters To Press: Move Over] Reference

And, unlike his partner in crime, Turow fills his books with what can only be characterized as actual writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turow's Latest Gets A Hung Jury] Reference

His father characterized his son as a sports fan and a comedian who had a knack for making other people feel good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallen Comrades] Reference

I am tired of hearing France characterized as a country that always backs down from a fight and surrenders to foreign invaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whatever Happened To Vive La Difference?] Reference

It's long been rumored that Sawyer coveted the anchor chair, and over the years she's been characterized as ambitious to a fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadcast News] Reference

Obama must also guard against the sort of intellectual arrogance that characterized the "best and the brightest" of the Vietnam era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brains Are Back!] Reference

Her prose is characterized by sedulously researched, deceptively simple patterns that give way to intuitive and controversial leaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mixed Media] Reference

Even though we no longer face the kind of existential threat that characterized the cold war, today's WMD danger is no more bearable.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Lead the World] Reference

When the kid becomes a teenager, the episodes are characterized by mixed symptoms, rapid cycling, psychosis, and severe irritability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Support for Parents] Reference