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Example sentences for "divided"

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divested; divesting; divests; divi; divide; dividend; dividends; divider; dividers; divides
  1. These may be divided into two classes: Nervous stimulants, and nervous sedatives.

  2. But his life is divided into periods which are, so far as consciousness is concerned, completely distinct from each other.

  3. These states of double-consciousness are divided from each other by a more or less complete break in the chain of memory.

  4. Philip looked across the room to Celie and her father as he divided the cartridges.

  5. A small strand he divided into three parts and began weaving into a silken thread only a little larger than the wolf-man's snare.

  6. The giant was turning slowly toward the window, and after a moment or two in which they could hear him mumbling softly he sat down cross-legged against the wall, divided the tress into three silken threads and began weaving them into a snare.

  7. Civil government divided into three departments, each of which sends 2 Deputies and 1 Senator to the French Chambers.

  8. Chili is divided into 18 Provinces and 4 Territories.

  9. A kingdom of Southeastern Asia, divided into 41 Provinces.

  10. The country is divided into 14 Provinces.

  11. Tigre and Amhara constitute one kingdom, and Shoa another; they are all divided into a great number of smaller provinces.

  12. Inhabitants divided into many tribes, ruled by chiefs.

  13. An empire of Asia, divided into British territory and feudatory states, acknowledging sovereignty of Great Britain.

  14. Some little disagreement, such as we have mentioned, arising out of business, or politics, had divided the houses of Knockwinnock and Monkbarns, when the emissary of the latter arrived to discharge his errand.

  15. He declined dining with the mess of the volunteer cohort which had been lately embodied, and shunned joining the convivialities of either of the two parties which then divided Fairport, as they did more important places.

  16. That portion of the world which is enough advanced to advocate reforms is entirely divided against itself on the subject of Tobacco.

  17. The manager was kind enough to have the barrel divided into two smaller casks of equal capacity, and I sent one to Don Antonio, and the other to Don Gennaro.

  18. I divided them between Bellino, Cecilia and Marina, and begged the two young girls to leave me alone with their brother.

  19. After dinner we repaired to my room, and he found his mercury divided in two vessels.

  20. We take it in turn to make the tea and wash up: profits equally divided at Christmas.

  21. This was really two rooms, but the folding doors, which had once divided the apartment, had long since been removed from their hinges; they were now rotting in the strip of garden behind the house.

  22. There is a desolate garden divided into three by a criss-cross fence and a hedge, and over the last a huge orange citrouille has clambered and lies perched on the top.

  23. At the foot stands a good-sized house divided now into several cottages.

  24. The young soldiers were divided into two equal commands.

  25. The cadets were to be divided into several small squads, and were to set off at different times from the academy, to reach a certain point ten miles distant, report there for dinner, and march back.

  26. He divided his cavalry and infantry into two divisions, giving Captain Beeby charge of one, and taking the other himself.

  27. The cadets will be divided into two armies, and we will play the war game just as the regulars and volunteers do.

  28. Could the article proposed be divided into two papers?

  29. Captain Nesik and the Hankers, after they marooned you fellows, made a landing and divided up the gold into boxes.

  30. It may be halfway to China, or divided up and squandered by that miserable Hankers crowd.

  31. Alas, yes, it was all divided and made into portions, so much for the Hankers, so much for Nesik, so much for the crew.

  32. Mendicity became a distinct institution, was divided into various branches, and was provided with a language of its own.

  33. And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to the children of Israel into seven parts.

  34. And the children of Israel divided among themselves all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, killing all the men.

  35. But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive other portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed their beasts and flocks.

  36. And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.

  37. And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain: 23:5.

  38. So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing them down in a book.

  39. As the Lord had commanded Moses so did the children of Israel, and they divided the land.

  40. And their is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot.

  41. This possession Moses divided in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan, over against Jericho on the east side, 13:33.

  42. Lewis had the deer skinned, and, after reserving a quarter of it, gave the rest of the animal to the chief, to be divided among the Indians, who immediately devoured the whole without cooking.

  43. The necessary stores were divided into seven bales and one box, the latter containing a small portion of each article in case of a loss of any one of the bales.

  44. They are divided into numerous tribes, named Yanktons, Tetons, Assinaboins, &c.

  45. Here they saw a herd of elk; and the men were divided into small parties, and hunted them till after dark.

  46. One mile farther down, we reached a pitch of the river, which, being divided by two large rocks, descends with great rapidity over a fall eight feet in height.

  47. This he ordered to be divided into two equal parts, and one-half of it boiled with the berries into a sort of pudding; and, after presenting a large share to the chief, he and his three men breakfasted on the remainder.

  48. Goguelat, fearful of causing a riot, and not finding the carriage arrive as he expected, divided his men into two companies, and unfortunately made them leave the highway in order to return to Varennes by two cross roads.

  49. Divided between vanity and affection, Louis was at once less firm and less self-possessed than Mary.

  50. In his study, where he passed most of his time, he divided his hours between works of devotion and books of science.

  51. A straight line across the centre of the room divided it into two portions, one half of which was regarded as French, and the other as Spanish territory.

  52. We rapidly neared each other, the Dolphin gradually edging away as the lugger fore-reached upon us, until only half a mile of water divided the two craft.

  53. Simply because that poor craven of a fellow appropriated a small morsel of putrid meat and a few drops of disgusting liquid that, evenly divided among you all, could have done you no appreciable good.

  54. At the time of publication, in 1762, their authenticity was questioned, and even at the present day scholars are divided in their opinion as to their genuineness.

  55. The literature of Spain may be divided into four classes--the old Ballads, the Chronicles, the Romances of Chivalry, and the Drama.

  56. The stage was divided into three different floors, with Heaven on top, hell on the ground floor, and the earth between.

  57. The history of the drama may be divided into two classes, the Christian, which began with the Mystery and Morality plays; and the Greek, which was eminently classic.

  58. It has been said that poetry and song are divided into three periods of a nation's history, that the Epic has to do with the first awakening of a people, telling of their legends, or of some great deeds in remote antiquity.

  59. They have been divided into different classes, or cycles.

  60. Finally, upon its surface there is fashioned a little elevation, which afterwards becomes divided and marked by a groove.

  61. The heart is supposed to be divided into two portions.

  62. For the purpose which I have at present in view, it is unnecessary that I should enter into any further minutiae respecting the distinctive characters of the genera and species into which these man-like Apes are divided by naturalists.

  63. A stalk and two terminal divisions, exactly as in the others, but the stalk is very short and very thick, the terminal divisions are very broad and flat, and one of them is divided into two pieces.

  64. There is a skeleton formed in the body of each of them, like a cup divided by a number of radiating partitions towards the outside; and that cup is formed of carbonate of lime, only not stained red, as in the case of the red coral.

  65. As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and smaller portions, until it is reduced to an aggregation of granules not too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism.

  66. In this next coral the creature which has formed the skeleton has divided itself as it grew, and consequently has formed a great expansion; but scattered all over this surface there were polype bodies like those I previously described.

  67. It was as divided as Germany or Italy, and yet it had a unity which they could not boast.

  68. These were the two theories which ostensibly divided the Protestants in 1529 into two parties, the one of which was led by Zwingli and the other by Luther.

  69. He at once began to reform his diocese; compelled his cures to reside in their parishes; divided the diocese into thirty-two districts, and sent to each of them a preacher for part of the year.

  70. The city had long been divided into two parties, and the old differences reappeared as soon as the city declared itself Protestant.

  71. When the murders had been done in the Louvre, the troops divided into parties and went to seek other victims.

  72. The Nobles were divided on the question of toleration, and presented three separate papers.

  73. The whole Synod was divided into three divisions or Commissions, to each of which allotted work was given.

  74. The Swiss Confederacy was divided ecclesiastically into two opposite camps.

  75. One set arose from the fact that the seventeen provinces were divided by race and by language.

  76. Most of the territory of Switzerland was ecclesiastically divided between the archiepiscopal provinces of Mainz and Besancon, and the river Aare was the boundary between them.

  77. They had divided France into nine divisions under provincial synods, and had the appearance to men of that century of a kingdom within a kingdom.

  78. England was divided into six districts, and lists of visitors were drawn up which included the Lords Lieutenants of the counties, the chief men of the districts, and some lawyers and clergymen known to be well affected to the Reformation.

  79. The Institutio is divided into four parts, each part expounding one of these fundamental sentences.

  80. The basement was divided into five rooms, to be used for night-schools and other agencies for the benefit of the poor.

  81. In each of the seven districts into which the city is divided is located a district house; a pleasant, well-kept place.

  82. The six to eight hundred patients were divided according to their religious faith.

  83. The older probationers are divided two and three in a room.

  84. The three grades into which the Christian women workers are divided embrace every kind of work done in connection with the Church.

  85. Buck kept his divided humour through tea; then there was another outburst.

  86. They had been following the railings that divided the Mall from St. James's Park, but she had stopped to ask her question.

  87. It might be divided yet more nicely, and made yet clearer; but this division may pass, and therefore I stay not to divide it further.

  88. This sonnet may be divided into four parts.

  89. Then, when I say "An Angel," I begin treating of this lady: and this part is divided into two.

  90. This sonnet is divided into four parts, four things being therein narrated; and as these are set forth above, I only proceed to distinguish the parts by their beginnings.

  91. This first sonnet is divided into three parts.

  92. In this same manner is it divided with the other beginning, save that, in the first part, I tell when this lady had thus come into my mind, and this I say not in the other.

  93. The aqueous humor is situated in the fore part of the eye, and is divided by the iris into what are called the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye.

  94. That system of instruction which relates exclusively to either, is a partial system, and its fate must be that of a house divided against itself.

  95. In the rear of the building, it should be divided by a high and close fence, and one portion, appropriately fitted up, should be assigned exclusively for the use of boys, and the other for girls.

  96. The muscles have been divided into three parts, of which the middle and fleshy portion, called the belly, is most conspicuous.


  97. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divided" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    divided according; divided against; divided among; divided diagonally from the lower hoist; divided into