How to Use divisive in a Sentence

divisive

adjective

• Still, the state of the Texas power grid has been a divisive topic for years.
  — Breanne Deppisch, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
• The song, which was released in May, has been quite divisive.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 25 July 2023
• The Vatican need not look far to see the divisive power of the issue.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• Hogan has long counseled the GOP to move away from Trump, calling him divisive.
  — Annie Jennemann, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
• While many comments on TikTok praised the video, the same post on Twitter was more divisive.
  — Jeffrey Clark, Fox News, 24 Apr. 2023
• The fact that Brooke wasn’t in the episode was a divisive decision, according to the comments section of the YouTube video.
  — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 13 Aug. 2024
• Holmes’ dress-over-jeans look for the 2022 iHeartRadio Jingle Ball was divisive, yes.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
• This won’t be the first year Hollywood’s biggest night takes place amid a divisive war.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2024
• Getting the facts right might diminish some of the divisive rhetoric in this country.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• To be a place of peaceful dialogue and debate for even the most divisive issues in the world today.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
• The practice of keeping your dog confined in a cage for periods of time is a divisive one.
  — Kelly Conaboy, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
• The bill that could ban TikTok may become a divisive issue in the 2024 election.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2024
• This debate isn’t just about the 20 states that have enacted these divisive bans.
  — Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
• And then there's the subtle peplum detail at the hip, which proves that the divisive early-2000s trend is not going anywhere.
  — Condé Nast, Glamour, 12 Mar. 2023
• The use of bait has always been a divisive subject in deer hunting circles.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Aug. 2023
• Despite the divisive nature of the bill, debate was largely calm.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
• The movie was divisive, and a box office failure, and everyone moved on.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
• It's got puffy sleeves that taper into a cuff and the fit avoids the divisive boxy look, according to reviews.
  — Clint Davis, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
• There was a lot of grousing about the last two Sopranos seasons, and the end remains divisive.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
• In her opinion piece, Sandberg notes that the conflict itself is divisive, but adds that a stance against rape shouldn't be.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2023
• He was shocked by how divisive school-board elections had become in his small town of Mount Vernon, Iowa.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Though it’s been more than half a year since the divisive rebrand, the platform’s web domain is still twitter.com — even x.com redirects to the original link.
  — Saira Mueller, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• And while Preston has had divisive Game of Thrones opinions in the past, on this point, lots of fans agreed with him—both in his livestream’s comments and across the internet.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2024
• The prequels were rather divisive at the time of their release, and Christensen’s performance bore the brunt of that criticism.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023
• Asma, there hasn't been an issue that's been this divisive.
  — ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• So his success with what was once such a divisive bill is a win for Jeter, who carried a similar bill in 2023, which died in the Senate.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024
• Musk’s ownership of Twitter has been the most divisive.
  — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 29 June 2023
• The idea of wrapping the 2024 campaign around this kind of high concept is divisive in Democratic circles.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• Ultimately, this mayo was rather divisive, with tasters either rating it very high or very low.
  — Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2024
• Bay’s style is always divisive, but hopefully, even those who don’t love it will be intrigued by how different this show is, which raises the question of what else is stylistically possible in the genre.
  — Kelly Goodner, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024