sort into

Frequency: 7.618.5 per million words

to separate items into different groups or piles

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Examples (10)

  • We sorted the clothes into piles.
  • The librarian will sort the books into categories.
  • Please sort the recyclables into glass, plastic, and paper.
  • They spent hours sorting the beads into colours and sizes.
  • All new applications must be sorted into two main folders.
  • Can you help me sort these old photos into chronological order?
  • The software automatically sorts emails into important and spam.
  • After the election, votes were carefully sorted into different constituencies.
  • We need to sort the documents into urgent and non-urgent files.
  • The teacher asked the children to sort the blocks into shapes.