How to Use divided in a Sentence

divided

adjective

• Experts are sharply divided on the issue.
• The issue has created a deeply divided nation.
• She feels like she only gets her mother's divided attention.
• People were very divided on it in the reviews of the tour.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
• And Israelis have gotten wise to the games Bibi has played in the past to keep them divided and distracted.
  — Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• But a divided appeals court revived the case this month.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• But a divided legislative branch with Biden still in the White House could be the recipe for a debt-ceiling repeat.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• But the poll showed that Democrats remain deeply divided about the prospect of Mr. Biden, the 81-year-old chief executive, leading the party again.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• Watts grew up in the Peoria area, which is well known for its divided fan support between the Cubs and Cardinals.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
• Both efforts have little to no chance of passing in a divided Congress.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• The interior has a bit of microsuede, too, and includes mesh pockets, a leather loop, and a divided strap to store tablet pens and such.
  — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 28 July 2023
• If anything, the voters who turned out in the last presidential year were more divided on this issue than those who voted in the midterms.
  — Monica Potts, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2023
• The divided cinnamon rolls create a pull-apart sweet that is a surefire crowd-pleaser.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2024
• Some of the heat around the guns issue has been defused in recent years because Virginia has had a divided government.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• The fate of any deal, however, is unpredictable in a divided Congress.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
• The first draft was originally more linear, twice as long and more divided in its focus.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• The Trump rule was tossed by a federal judge in 2021, but a divided Supreme Court later reinstated it.
  — Matthew Daly, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• But Trump voters are slightly more divided on the subject than Biden voters.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• In a divided world, where too many institutions are failing, Taylor Swift found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
• The offense was fairly equally divided between two-strike-tough Josh Jung and run-scoring balks.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• As for how soon everyone will get fully back to work, many remain divided.
  — Will Tizard, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• Finally, chords of A minor, F major, and B major shine from above—deus-ex-machina grace for a divided soul.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Yet her anguish often stems from a sense that ours is a system designed to keep people divided and hopeless.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• Wall Street is betting on a messy and divided recovery for U.S. city mass transit systems.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
• Some of this process still takes place, but in an era of divided government and partisan gridlock, the spending bills drafted by the House this year had no chance of passage in the Senate.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• The war has caught Israel at perhaps its most divided moment in history.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
• Another video shows a driver heading in the wrong direction on the divided highway around 4:28 a.m.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The total hasn’t been that low since late 2021 and continues a downward trend that began in the Spring, shortly before a divided City Council approved the camping ban.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2023
• Aid for both countries faces an uncertain path in the deeply divided Congress, and Ukraine was already facing a shortfall on what it was promised by the European Union.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
• At the library board meeting, residents were even more divided.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024