How to Use dividing line in a Sentence

dividing line

noun

• The mission offered a clear dividing line between success and failure.
  — Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2024
• How much falls and where will depend on the storm’s path and where the rain/snow dividing line ends up.
  — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2024
• In their minds, 1890 marked a dividing line between the two.
  — Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
• As a dividing line in sports, testosterone makes a certain amount of sense.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
• What is the dividing line, the thing that makes a work unacceptable?
  — Jamieson Webster, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• As if someone had drawn a dividing line between them, the trees to the left are dead — killed by flooding a few years prior — while the others are alive.
  — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left.
  — Jacob Bogage, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• His career falls loosely into two halves, with WWII the dividing line.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 May 2023
• Often the dividing line between major and routine came down to a last-minute effort by the crew or rescue teams.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• Most short bursts lasted less than a second, while many long bursts went on for a minute or longer (the dividing line between the two flavors comes at around two seconds).
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• That dividing line is tough to pinpoint in real time, but the Fed uses models based on past data to ballpark it.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
• Today, that frontier with the European Union is a dividing line between war and peace.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
• The Lone Star State ranks 14th nationally for its dividing line.
  — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
• All of that has shifted so much, and yet the paradigm of this dividing line between work and our personal lives has not shifted.
  — Polina Pompliano, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• Even now, a major north-south street, Troost Avenue, is seen as a dividing line, with more Black people living to the east and more white people to the west, including downtown.
  — Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• Once PfP was abandoned, a new dividing line became inevitable.
  — M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• The critical dividing line in these disputes remained between those parties in the vital center and those on the extremes.
  — Peter Trubowitz, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2023
• The case, however, is complicated by the fact that the lot straddles the dividing line between the cities of Los Angeles and San Fernando.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2023
• If there were only two personalities in the world, these two films would represent the dividing line.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
• This mighty, sprawling river serves as a dividing line between Ukrainian forces and Russian occupiers, who have destroyed bridges that could be used to cross it.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• The river’s southernmost portion has become a makeshift dividing line between the fighting sides.
  — Time, 7 June 2023
• Because of the severity of King’s criticism, it has been repeated countless times, cast as a dividing line between King and Malcolm X.
  — Gillian Brockell, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
• The researchers were not surprised to find most were concentrated in neighborhoods east of Troost Avenue, the city’s historical racial and wealth dividing line.
  — Kevin Hardy, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
• So far, the 2024 Republican presidential field hasn’t faced such a clear dividing line question.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
• Mallett sees 1979 as an important cultural dividing line — a period of oil shocks and stagflation.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• Together the pair proceed to smudge the dividing line between mentor and protégé, while Delpy’s tight-lipped Hélène patiently keeps to the sidelines, awaiting the perfect opportunity to contribute a wily plotline of her own.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023
• Wu’s proposal would keep the neighborhood whole, in one council district, as opposed to the map that was rejected by a federal court earlier this week, where Adams Street would have been dividing line between two council districts.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Hispanic and Black residents make up the majority of residents living in districts south of Interstate 30, which is commonly viewed as the dividing line between the northern and southern areas of the city.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• The churning of this machine and the realities that straddle that nearly invisible dividing line come to mind when thinking of this half-century commemoration of hip hop.
  — A.d. Carson, Spin, 26 Aug. 2023
• They are said to represent the unofficial dividing line between Northern California (the pine) and Southern California (the palm).
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024