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How to use bisect in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb, noun

Bisect means to cut or divide into two parts. Example: “The river bisects the town.”

Examples of bisect by meaning

verbTo cut or divide into two parts.

  • The river bisects the town.
  • The quadrennial period of games and festivals in Greece was probably arrived at by bisecting an older octennial period.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 84

More sentences with bisect

  • One half of the bisected line is the same as the other.From the entry bisected
  • A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal.From the entry orthogonal
  • Although Endo-M hydrolyzed asialobiantennary oligosaccharide containing bisecting GlcNAc, neither Endo-CC1 nor Endo-CC2 did.2015 July 22, “Transglycosylation Activity of Glycosynthase Mutants of Endo-β- N -Acetylglucosaminidase from Coprinopsis cinerea”, in PLOS…. From the entry asialobiantennary
  • Glowing hot rivers of lava bisect the landscape, leading to a stunning lavafall.2011, Lego Ninjago: Official Guide, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry lavafall
  • The mountain-ringed Yukon Flats basin straddles the Arctic Circle and is bisected by the Yukon River.1978, Jimmy Carter, Proclamation 4627. From the entry straddle
  • The rosehead bur is used to remove bone and the flat fissured bur to bisect a tooth for easier removal.2017, Nicola Rogers, Cinzia Pickett, Basic Guide to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, page 50. From the entry rosehead
  • A ribbon of sand and grass bisected the pluff mud, and on the other side a lovely glade opened, gleaming like an emerald.2014 July 8, Anne Rivers Siddons, The Girls of August, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry pluff mud
  • It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood, blue with a thick white stripe bisecting the hood, the roof, and the trunk.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 110. From the entry benz
  • In the center of Mount Desert Island is deep Somes Sound, almost bisecting the island and forming the only natural fjord on the entire Atlantic Coast of North America.1951, Richard A. Hebert, “Hancock County”, in Modern Maine: Its Historic Background, People and Resources, volume II, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry fjord
  • To the amazement of the extra-terrestrians, Arcot’s first move was to create a titanic plane of artificial matter, and neatly bisect the Thought at the middle!1932, J. W. Campbell, Jr., Invaders from the Infinite in Amazing Stories Quarterly, numbers Spring–Summer, page 226/2. From the entry extraterrestrian
  • This mountain range bisects China east to west and is the watershed for the Yellow River (Huang He) to the north and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) to the south.1996, Liz Laider, Keith Laidler, “Eastern Plains and Yangtze Wetlands”, in China's Threatened Wildlife, Blandford, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 115. From the entry Qin Mountains

Meaning of bisect

  1. verb To cut or divide into two parts.
  2. verb To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
  3. verb To perform a binary search on files in source control in order to identify the specific change that introduced a bug etc.

Full definition of bisect

Questions about bisect in a sentence

How do you use bisect in a sentence?
Bisect is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The river bisects the town.”
What is a short sentence with bisect?
“The river bisects the town.”
What does bisect mean?
Bisect means to cut or divide into two parts.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bisect (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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