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How to use divide in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Divide means to split or separate (something) into two or more parts. Example: “How shall we divide this pie?”

Examples of divide by meaning

verbTo split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

  • a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns

verbTo share (something) by dividing it.

  • How shall we divide this pie?

verbTo cause (a group of people) to disagree.

  • Words divide us; Wiktionary unites us.
  • For nearly two years, the pandemic has been dividing families over issues like social distancing, mask-wearing, and vaccines.2021 December 15, “Has the Pandemic Torn Your Family Apart?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
  • It is a debate that divides Americans as evenly as any of the great political issues of the day.2023 April 29, Will Pavia, “Why butter must come out of the fridge”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

verbTo calculate the quotient number by which another one (the divisor) is multiplied to produce a second number (the...

  • If you divide 6 by 3, you get 2.
  • I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations.2022 August 7, Alec Wilkinson, “Could learning algebra in my 60s make me smarter?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Mar...

verbTo be a divisor of.

  • 3 divides 6.

verbTo reproduce by either mitosis or meiosis.

  • Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

verbTo split (something) into regular steps or intervals; to mark with degrees; to graduate.

  • to divide a sextant

nounA thing that divides.

  • Stay on your side of the divide, please.

More sentences with divide

  • Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.From the entry comparable
  • If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.From the entry remain
  • We installed a dividing wall in order to create two rooms out of one.From the entry dividing
  • Dividing the code into basic blocks makes analysis of control flow much easier.From the entry basic block
  • Divide in half to relate proof to ABV: whiskey that is 80 proof is 40% ABV.From the entry abv
  • The problem "given two numbers x and y, does x evenly divide y?" is a decision problem.From the entry decision problem
  • The most important isogloss dividing Old Low German is the plural conjugation of the verb.From the entry Old Low German
  • Dividing 12 by 4 yields a quotient of 3.From the entry quotient
  • He divides dyspepsias into accidental, temporary (indigestions) and habitual.From the entry dyspepsia
  • Bridge the digital divide. Let the poor get across.From the entry get across
  • It is mathematically impossible to divide by zero.From the entry mathematically
  • The North American continental divide runs along the Rockies.From the entry Rockies
  • Dividing seven dollars among three people is difficult!From the entry dividing
  • The usual rule of thumb says that to calculate when an investment will double, divide 70 by the interest rate.From the entry rule of thumb
  • To annualise net profit, divide the year-to-date net profit by the number of completed months, and multiply by twelve.From the entry annualise
  • The quicksort algorithm is an example of divide and conquer.From the entry divide and conquer
  • The road marcation divides the highway into two lanes.From the entry marcation
  • Syrts may be separated from each other by higher ridges, and may serve as water divides between drainage basins for larger rivers.From the entry syrt
  • From a society of a white elite ruling over a predominantly enslaved Black subaltern population, the Haitian Revolution generated a slaveless country that proceeded to suffer with socioeconomic divides.From the entry slaveless
  • He divides synchronically opaque Sardinian toponyms into segments supposedly related to Basque lexical roots.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 19. From the entry synchronically
  • Regardless of size, after dividing each tuber should comprize of a body, a neck and a crown.2024, Ulrika Grönlund, Dahlias: Inspiration, Cultivation and Care for 222 Varieties, Quadrille Publishing. From the entry comprize
  • Municipal councils can decide and divide municipalities into smaller administrative units called elderships.2023 February, Katarína Vitálišová, Jaroslav Dvořák, “Differences and Similarities in Local Participative Governance in Slovakia and…. From the entry eldership
  • The linguistic divide in Kyrgyzstan’s digital space separates information channels between Russophone and Kyrgyzophone people.2023, Gulzat Baialieva, Joldon Kutmanaliev, Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Populists: How Social Media is Reshaping Political Discourse in Central…. From the entry Kyrgyzophone
  • One can divide antiracism into three waves along the lines that feminism has been.2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 1, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN. From the entry antiracism
  • This prompted the TSSA to accuse ScotRail of trying to divide and conquer.2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62. From the entry divide and conquer
  • What divides the singularist from the multiplist is not just an epistemic difference.2019, Michael Krausz, Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices, page 45. From the entry singularist
  • The response to this latest scandal has taken a familiar turn, dividing along gender lines.2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian. From the entry bemusement
  • Since Loreto's mythohistory preceded modern academic segregations, it defiantly spans historians' temporal divides.2018, Karin Vélez, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World, Princeton University Press…. From the entry mythohistory
  • This was the factor used to divide the city of Cairo into thirteen subcities.2018, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious, page 185. From the entry subcity

Meaning of divide

  1. verb To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
  2. verb To separate into two or more parts.
  3. verb To share (something) by dividing it.

Full definition of divide

Questions about divide in a sentence

How do you use divide in a sentence?
Divide is used as a verb and noun. For example: “How shall we divide this pie?”
What is a short sentence with divide?
“3 divides 6.”
What does divide mean?
Divide means to split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: divide (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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