DIVID in a Sentence

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242 example sentences for DIVID, such as:
1. On this point opinion was divided.
2. Europe is divided into economic zones.
3. This lesson is divided into four units.
4. The assembly was divided at this point.
5. Congress is still evenly divided on the issue.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DIVID
divide
 v.  make a division or separation
 v.  act as a barrier between; stand between
Classic Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  So desirable in every way were the apartments, and so moderate did the terms seem when divided between us, that the bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into possession.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  The valley in which he found himself divided and sub-divided into many gorges, which were so like each other that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  The whole farm was deeply divided on the subject of the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball's eloquence had carried them away.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
5  "Batty," Grace called her, as she felt on her face the divided glance that was half meant for a beast in a swamp, half for a maid in a print frock and white apron.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
6  In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less-frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
8  And certainly the hate that now divided them was equal on each side.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9  The assembly was divided at this point.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
10  Upon a nature long accustomed to self-suppression, thus torn and divided, the Harthouse philosophy came as a relief and justification.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
11  On this point opinion was divided.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
12  The park was denuded of its timber, and divided into lots.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  Therefore, again, she was divided between two feelings: resentment against him, and a desire to make it up with him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  In return for such services she loved him better than anybody in the world except William: her heart was divided between the two.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  It was the first day for many, many weeks, in which the families had been wholly divided.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  This play is divided into three acts, and each act has three scenes.
2  If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
3  It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.
4  The teacher divided the class and took one section to the library and left the other to write an article.
5  The bag is divided into separate compartments.
6  There were four of us, so we divided the orange into quarters and each ate a piece.
7  The chinese word for crisis is divided into two characters, one meaning danger and the other meaning opportunity.
8  A bank's local market share tends to be divided equally between the local branch and branches located elsewhere.
9  This issue has bitterly divided the community.
10  Congress is still evenly divided on the issue.
11  He divided up his property and gave a portion to each of his children.
12  Europe is divided into economic zones.
13  Western powers have been accused of trying to establish a puppet government/regime in the divided country.
14  The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
15  This lesson is divided into four units.