SEPARATE in a Sentence

Learn SEPARATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
305 example sentences for SEPARATE, such as:
1. Maybe both of us will do better separate.
2. They allotted a separate desk to everyone.
3. The bag is divided into separate compartments.
4. Write a list of names on a separate piece of paper.
5. They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SEPARATE
separate
 a.  separated according to race, sex, class, or religion
 a.  have the connection undone; having become separate
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Maybe both of us will do better separate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  First, it proved indubitably that she and her husband occupied separate rooms, in itself a shocking enough state of affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  For too long the town had been scandalized by the separate bedrooms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
4  He was no less conscious than before of what was said of Lily Bart, but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  To separate from these confused conceptions those most likely to advance the lady on her way, was Lily's obvious duty; but its performance was hampered by rapidly-growing doubts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  She felt so profoundly tired that she thought she must fall asleep at once; but as soon as she had lain down every nerve started once more into separate wakefulness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7  But the town as a separate unit is not the husband of the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  The rooms in the op'ra house sets had separate wing-pieces for sides, which simplified dramaturgy, as the villain could always get out of the hero's way by walking out through the wall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Between the second and third acts she called the company together, and supplicated, "I want to know something, before we have a chance to separate."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  She doubted the convenience and, as a natural sequent, the sanctity of the monogamous and separate home which she had regarded as the basis of all decent life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, ISOLATOES too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each ISOLATO living on a separate continent of his own.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
12  On the separate subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing authority.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
14  Any way, I'll have me thirty separate, Turk's-headed life-lines, each three feet long hanging all round to the coffin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
15  The Afro-American citizens of Kentucky, whose intellectual and financial improvement has been phenomenal, have never had a separate car law until now.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  The ability to separate out reusable elements from other waste is crucial.
2  It was absolutely essential to separate crops from the areas that animals used as pasture.
3  Britain and Ireland announce a new peace initiative that would separate political talks from the disarmament issue.
4  The art department and the main college are in two separate buildings.
5  City spokesman Kelvin McNeill said police plan to schedule an appointment with the parents, each of whom has a separate attorney.
6  The bag is divided into separate compartments.
7  The unit has become part of a larger department and no longer exists as a separate entity.
8  Write a list of names on a separate piece of paper.
9  You will need to create separate fields for first name, surname and address.
10  He regarded the north of the country as a separate cultural entity.
11  They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
12  That is a separate issue and irrelevant to our discussion.
13  His work was important in helping establish dentistry as a separate profession.
14  They allotted a separate desk to everyone.
15  We must separate out these different factors and examine each one.