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How to use split in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, adjective, noun

Split means to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line. Example: “He has split his lip.”

Examples of split by meaning

verbTo divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.

  • He has split his lip.
  • This system splits water molecules and delivers some of their electrons to other molecules that help build up carbohydrates.2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2013

verbTo share; to divide.

  • We split the money among three people.
  • Presently the 57-strong Class 378 fleet is split between the East London line and North London line, with 29 units allocated on the east side.2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18

verbTo leave.

  • Let's split this scene and see if we can find a real party.
  • I had this Palm Springs gig set up for Joey and the bitch split.1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Leon (Bill Duke)

verbTo separate.

  • Did you hear Dick and Jane split? They'll probably get a divorce.

verbTo (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.

  • Accusations of bribery split the party just before the election.

verbFor both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.

  • Boston split with Philadelphia in a doubleheader, winning the first game 3-1 before losing 2-0 in the nightcap.

adjectiveDivided.

  • Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.

adjectiveGiven in sixteenths rather than eighths.

  • 10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.

More sentences with split

  • We used to prepare everything today, but now we split it over two days.From the entry today
  • After a split second of hesitation, the second baseman leaped for the ball—or, rather, stumbled for it.From the entry for
  • Mary seems very down since she split up with her boyfriend.From the entry down
  • Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.From the entry lean
  • Helium-2 is unbound, as it is energetically favorable for it to split into two separate protons.From the entry unbound
  • There's a lot in that wash: maybe you should split it into two piles.From the entry wash
  • There is too much history between them for them to split up now.From the entry history
  • There were two bingos in the last game, so the players split the prize money.From the entry bingo
  • A group of rebels defied the general's orders and split off from the main army.From the entry rebel
  • If my boyfriend isn't willing to change his drinking habits, I will split up with him.From the entry willing
  • Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.From the entry staunch
  • Let's get everything sorted into the right drawers and not split hairs about subdividing it further yet.From the entry split hairs
  • I've got so many split ends – I think I must be working too hard.From the entry split end
  • They decided to splurge on the biggest banana split for dessert.From the entry splurge
  • Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn’t burst.From the entry casing
  • Sally voted a split ticket for a Democrat and a Republican.From the entry split ticket
  • We divvied the money into equal portions to split between us.From the entry divvy
  • I'll handle production, you handle sales, and we'll split profits fifty-fifty.From the entry fifty-fifty
  • After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.From the entry split up
  • The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building.From the entry split up
  • There are quite a few split pot possibilities with these two hands.From the entry split pot
  • The band lost their way after their second album, and split up after a string of failures.From the entry lose one's way
  • It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.From the entry column
  • The two rugbies split following a debate about amateurism.From the entry rugby
  • Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!From the entry badly
  • Confined to a wheelchair, she was effectively reduced to living in one split level, one-third of their split-level house.From the entry split level
  • His dime bag split open while he was running away.From the entry dime bag
  • My grandmother thought it was ungentlemanly of my boyfriend to suggest that we split the bill for dinner.From the entry ungentlemanly
  • As late PIE evolved and split into dialects, many of the old root nouns and consonant-stems were thematicized.From the entry thematicize

Meaning of split

  1. verb To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  2. verb Of something solid, particularly wood, to break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
  3. verb To share; to divide.

Full definition of split

Questions about split in a sentence

How do you use split in a sentence?
Split is used as a verb, adjective and noun. For example: “He has split his lip.”
What is a short sentence with split?
“10+³⁄₁₆ is a split quotation.”
What does split mean?
Split means to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: split (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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