How to Use divvy in a Sentence

divvy

verb

• Congress is still figuring out how to divvy up those funds.
  — Shefali Luthra, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• After all, the family does not want to see their monies divvied up in the event of a divorce.
  — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Many Kosovars see this as proof that politics is less about issues than about divvying up the spoils.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• As a result, a class of 20 students may get divvied up, so that four teachers have to take five extra students each.
  — Scott Travis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The Treasury is due soon to appoint an independent arbitrator to divvy up the cash.
  — The Economist, 23 Feb. 2018
• Oscar shared the wealth this year, divvying out its awards across films representing a spectrum of experiences and perspectives.
  — Sean Axmaker, OregonLive.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• At a meeting to divvy up neighborhoods, Joe’s dad was assigned the part of Forest Glen around the Castle.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
• That amount, the moderators explained, would be divvied up among pairs of participants, each of which would get seventy-three green stickers worth two thousand euros each.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• The plan that Kings coach John Stevens has for divvying up the goaltending duty has become slightly murky, though the latest results are crystal clear.
  — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• The two countries have divvied up every women's world championship since that tournament began in 1990, leaving the rest of the world to scramble for the crumbs.
  — Paul Newberry, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• The reporters divvied up the pages and read through the trove.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2019
• How to divvy up the costs has been a source of acrimony in the past.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 July 2022
• The League has a lot of smaller packages to divvy up in the streaming era.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
• But a lot has changed since all this water was first divvied up.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• But how are these jobs divvied up, and where do bees learn the skills to execute them?
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
• The women divvy up the cash evenly among the 23 players who make the World Cup roster.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 31 July 2023
• The plan was to divvy up the rest of the Biden agenda into smaller, more palatable chunks.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• Gift them all to one lucky foodie or divvy them up among the heat seekers in your life.
  — Corina Quinn, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2022
• Now that a settlement has been reached, more work needs to be on next steps, like how to divvy up the amount.
  — CBS News, 2 Aug. 2024
• When the meat was divvied up, dogs received scraps as their reward, Wynne says.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
• When divvied up by region, race and class, the results are sobering.
  — John Myers, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
• The Roundtable doesn’t offer breakdowns for how to divvy up the $5 billion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
• In this messy and drawn-out split, after 47 years together, the divvying up of the stuff is not so easy.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
• Wittbrodt would then divvy up the kickbacks with Dr. Tyler and Fillmore.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2019
• The roster for Week 5 SEC games was thin for the league’s television partners to divvy up.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2019
• The Ravens have a young, exciting group, but now coach John Harbaugh has to find a way to divvy up the catches.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• The winners, Van Jones and José Andrés, will divvy out the dough to their own favorite causes.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 20 July 2021
• That’s the night when Dodgers season ticket holders gather to divvy up the 81 home games.
  — Anne Nemer, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• Maybe the solution is to offer a cash prize — maybe a million bucks, to be divvied up — to the winning side.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Here's how The big question: How will Michigan divvy up carries and snaps among these backs?
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024