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.
• The cars were both in the westbound lanes of the divided highway.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2024
• People were very divided on it in the reviews of the tour.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
• Whether a trust can be so divided is complex and depends on the terms of the trust.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Of course, the show wasn’t all a reminder of our divided, racist nation.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The dough can be prepared, divided, wrapped in plastic wrap, and stored in the fridge for one day before rolling out.
  — Molly Bolton, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2024
• The restaurant’s theme celebrates the best of land and sea, and the two sections of the divided restaurant reflect that.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
• Just as the justices have grown more divided, so has their staff, eroding trust.
  — Jodi Kantor, New York Times, 21 Jan. 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
• With a divided Congress, what do people think of the parties' stances?
  — Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Performed in 2022, in the midst of an overseas war and a divided nation, the song can arguably take on new meanings.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2022
• Korea is still at war, North and South, legally, but there is an armistice and a divided country.
  — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 July 2024
• 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
• This race has shown me that the community is still deeply divided.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• The nation’s so divided, this kind of reminds us about what’s important, and what can unite us.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 23 Nov. 2022
• The country is so divided that the red team and the blue team are not talking to each other, and the dismissal of one side by the other is not going to solve the problem.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Its members are much more divided and their leader, Keir Starmer, has tried to avoid taking sides.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• Those of us who have watched already are a bit divided on the Sally Rooney adaptation.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 15 May 2022
• This divided country desperately needs someone to play the hero, and José Andrés is the right man for the job.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• In this way, the country appears an image in miniature of the wider world—divided and angry, fearful and on edge.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2022
• The country is more divided over what the New York indictment earlier this month means to them.
  — Anthony Salvanto, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
• And unity between Alabama and Auburn will be a theme for one of the greatest days of sports a divided town has ever known.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• Both efforts have little to no chance of passing in a divided Congress.
  — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• In our profoundly divided country, everybody seems to agree on one thing.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
• The petition came hours after a divided appeals court panel refused on procedural grounds to lift the order, which was filed Wednesday and expires on Feb. 26.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025