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Example sentences for "divides"

Lexicographically close words:
divided; dividend; dividends; divider; dividers; divideth; dividing; dividual; divil; divilment
  1. The patient enjoys the gift, divides a portion of it among the soothsayers, and often on the next day departs from life.

  2. Whoever entertains his friends at a feast neither sits with them nor touches any part of the food, but divides it among the feasters; or, if he has some one act as carver, sits apart fasting and looks on.

  3. Cortereal appeared in the neighborhood, in 1501, seeking lands for the Portuguese crown.

  4. The trunk divides low down, sometimes within six feet of the roots, and the branches grow horizontally.

  5. There goes a great mountain barrier from northeast to southwest, which divides the Great Svithjod from other kingdoms.

  6. The periods into which geology divides the history of the earth are different from those of Scripture, yet when properly understood there is a marked correspondence.

  7. The third objection divides into two halves.

  8. In another town a boy took his stand, and was baptised, thus crossing the line that divides secret belief from open confession.

  9. One day she risked capture and its consequences, and ran across the narrow stream which divides the Brahman street from the village, and spoke to one of our Band in a hurried little whisper.

  10. It is this separate interest-- this insidious state of warfare, that undermines morality, and divides mankind!

  11. But the valleys would not stop widening when they stopped deepening, and as they widened, the intervening divides would become narrower, and ultimately lower.

  12. By this process, the tributaries cut the divides between the main streams into shorter cross-ridges.

  13. By lengthening headward they would work back from their mains some part, or even all of the way across the divides separating the main valleys.

  14. It is seventy-five feet in height, and the stem is eighteen feet and a half in girth; it then divides in a very picturesque manner into two large limbs, one fifteen and the other twelve feet in girth.

  15. Course of the river continued, It divides into two branches.

  16. This portage is the ridge that divides the waters which discharge themselves into Hudson's Bay, from those that flow into the Northern ocean, and is in the latitude 56.

  17. The line then follows the Utawas river to its source; and continues from thence nearly West along the highlands which divides the waters that fall into Lake Superior and Hudson's Bay.

  18. Near the extremity of the point their church is built, which divides the village in two parts, forming a regular angle along the water side.

  19. The Art of War thus viewed in its limited sense divides itself again into tactics and strategy.

  20. Lisse which runs throughout all Tharbes, and divides it, the which river is as clear as a fountain.

  21. The river Agout is as weird a stream as its name implies, and divides this haphazard little city of the Tarn into two distinct, and quite characteristically different, parts.

  22. From the Atlantic at Bayonne to the Mediterranean at Port Bou, the mountain chain divides its valleys and ridges with the regularity of a wall-trained shrub or pear-tree, and sinks on both sides to the level plains of France and Spain.

  23. To-day the diocese divides the honour of archiepiscopal dignity with that of Toulon.

  24. They had been traveling silently for some hours, when the forest opened, and an arm of the mountain which divides the Umea Lappmark lay before them, in all its awful magnificence.

  25. The subject of this Proposition divides itself naturally into three parts.

  26. He divides what he calls Vital remedies into one division that acts on the nervous system, a second that affects the secerning system, and a third that influences the muscular and sanguiferous systems.

  27. Quit forever the calling that divides that heart I would have all my own.

  28. The simple things are the ones most needed today if we are to surmount what divides us, and cement what unites us.

  29. We are beginning to wipe out the line that divides the practical from the ideal; and in so doing we are fashioning an instrument of unimagined power for the establishment of a morally better world.

  30. Are worn," which the critic unwarrantably divides by his misplaced curves and uncouth impletions, is a passive verb, agreeing with the pronoun as.

  31. Not proper, because no comma here divides to observe from the preceding verb.

  32. The anapest divides two of them in the middle; the amphibrach will so divide eight.

  33. Dramatic poetry divides itself into the two forms, of comedy or tragedy.

  34. The Cæsura, or division, is the pause which takes place in a verse, and which divides it into two parts.

  35. Crombie thinks, "that interrogatives are strictly relatives;" and yet divides the two classes with his own hand!

  36. Death or some worse misfortune now divides them.

  37. Divides a friendship long confirm'd by age?

  38. The soul, which our philosophy divides into various capacities, is still one essence.

  39. Better: "Death, or some other misfortune, soon divides them.

  40. It divides the embouchures of the spacious rivers Old Calebar and Del Rey on the west, from the equally important one of the Cameroons on the east.

  41. At length, he reached the summit of the ridge, which divides the Senegal from the Niger, and coming to the brow of the hill, saw again this majestic river rolling its immense stream along the plain.

  42. This religion," said Julian, "which should unite all, only divides them.

  43. That betokens the Light of the world, which shall shine from every land where a river divides itself in order to flow into the sea.

  44. A net midway down the court divides the "service" side from the "hazard" side.

  45. A net divides the two courts and is 7 feet high.

  46. In the fields the channel usually divides into several streams, and runs through all the flat beds, laid out in steps, in which the taro has only to be lightly stuck to bring forth fruit in about ten months.


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