How to Use division in a Sentence

division

noun
  • After learning multiplication, the students were taught division.
  • The department would add a division chief, inspector and new equipment.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • But gender is not a division created by evolution to ensure the survival of the species.
    Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • Atlanta’s string of six straight division titles – the longest active streak in the big leagues – is almost certainly over.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Revenues in the streaming division rose to $5.5 billion (+12 percent).
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
  • But, sensing failure, their own ideological divisions and political rivalries may come to the fore.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • Major League Baseball’s balanced schedule creates fewer opportunities to make up ground — or build on a lead — in the division over the course of the season.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
  • The Texas Rangers have a losing record and are third in their division.
    Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • Despite that, the Dodgers rolled through a division series with a three-game sweep of the San Diego Padres.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • The home team went quietly in the seventh, then in the eighth and again in the ninth, spoiling a chance to draw even with the Reds for first place in the division.
    Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2023
  • The Slam won the WFA title in 2009, but dropped to the league’s second division two seasons later.
    Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • The 16-team playoff would feature the division winners and wild cards.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Kimmel then asked what group Trump would be in since there are racial divisions in prison.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The night the Dodgers clinched the division on Sept. 16, Kershaw started with four scoreless innings.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • In a prime time matchup and division rivalry game, that doesn’t seem likely given the stakes.
    Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The winner won the division and a playoff spot; the loser's season ended.
    Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • From there, the winner of the 2-3 matchup in each division faces the winner of the division champion-wild card playoff matchup in Round 2.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Do not let your fear and anger be used by those seeking dominance and division.
    Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor Of Psychiatry, Wayne State University, Fortune Well, 28 Oct. 2023
  • That would be enough to provide three shields for each of CMPD’s 13 patrol divisions.
    Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
  • Some of Ohio’s toughest football teams come through this region in the state’s biggest division.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Rumor has it Tiffany & Co. is going to start ramping up its watch division.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Unilever’s Beauty and Wellbeing division saw the highest revenue growth in the first half.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 25 July 2024
  • The car crash came amid growing division among Boston city councilors.
    John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • The poll also showed how divisions among voters over the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza are having an effect on the contest.
    Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Those in the defense and space division as well as the aftermarket services unit will still have the option to work a hybrid schedule.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • There are also deep divisions over Israel’s war with Hamas.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • Alicia Graf Mack took over as dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division five years ago.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 25 June 2023
  • Panay will run Amazon’s division for its Alexa and Echo speakers, Bloomberg reports.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2023
  • However, Cribb said her division no longer reports the number of deaths.
    Mary Hynes Las Vegas Review-Journal (tns), arkansasonline.com, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Walls, within the framework of nationalism, have often been tools of isolation and division.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2024

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