How to Use compartmentalize in a Sentence

compartmentalize

verb

• He compartmentalizes his life by keeping his job and his personal life separate.
• The company has compartmentalized its services.
• The shed is a good way to compartmentalize work and home.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018
• Boundaries must compartmentalize work to certain times of the day and to days of the week.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• She’s someone who’s always been able to compartmentalize things and been able to put things in a box and move on.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• The researchers talked about the need to both compartmentalize the part of their lives spent with Fox News and hold on to their feelings of outrage at the network.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
• At the same time, Williams has been around enough to compartmentalize his emotions.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
• So how does the 35-year-old from Serbia compartmentalize all of that?
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 28 Jan. 2023
• On the court, Williams seemed to have compartmentalized her job from the accident.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2017
• Wide receivers coach Fesi Sitake has liked the way the players have been able to compartmentalize and keep the focus on the game 11 days away.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• The tree will attempt to compartmentalize the fungus to keep it from spreading.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• For a while, Lipsitz could compartmentalize the guilt and bury herself in the excitement of her job.
  — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
• Growing up, the Olympian learned to compartmentalize his emotions at a young age.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
• Fear of the Big One long ago was compartmentalized in a far corner of my mind but always has lurked there, making me a tad nervous.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 15 July 2019
• As a result, this tradition is compartmentalized to regions of the country where the earth is hot enough to cook.
  — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
• That 3-9 group never figured out how to compartmentalize each game and dust away any residue of success or failure from them and move on to the next game.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2017
• Well, and that gets to the problem is that this president can't compartmentalize.
  — NBC News, 18 June 2017
• What Cindy does best is compartmentalizing her pain and her grief.
  — Candice Frederick, Teen Vogue, 25 Aug. 2018
• One of the blessings and curses one gets from the military is the ability to compartmentalize.
  — Paul De Gelder, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
• These men have no other choice but to compartmentalize him.
  — Michael Cuby, Them, 1 Aug. 2024
• Hoytema and Nolan compartmentalize things even further, shooting some of the film—Strauss’ story in particular—in black and white and most of the rest in color.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• That’s one way the family has tried to compartmentalize the joint grief in losing both in a single day – the day before Thanksgiving.
  — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2020
• The odd special, the Broadway show, they’re all compartmentalized.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• Over time, the constant need to compartmentalize chips away at your spirit and drains your energy.
  — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
• The Getty itself was designed with fire protection in mind, with thick walls and doors to compartmentalize any flames.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• As a firefighter, Whitfield said he was trained to compartmentalize his grief in order to focus on the mission at hand.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
• The Warriors had to compartmentalize that event all season.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 June 2019
• Partnering the journey map with departmental swim lanes is an easy way to compartmentalize the value added by each team along the way.
  — Kelly Grover, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Instead, provide emotional support to their feelings and teach them to compartmentalize tasks and emotions.
  — Sarah Vanbuskirk, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Policymakers in the United States have hoped to compartmentalize climate change as a challenge on which Beijing and Washington can meaningfully cooperate, even as the two countries compete elsewhere.
  — Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024