How to Use divvy in a Sentence

divvy

verb
  • 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 | McAsagrande@al.com, 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
  • Lay the shrimp atop a bed of ice on your biggest platter, or divvy them up across coupe glasses and spoon in some dip.
    Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The question is where and how to draw the lines on class distinctions, and how to divvy up the cash and other benefits.
    Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • It’s all part of an effort to divvy up the state’s towering tax surplus.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Indianapolis might continue to divvy up the playing time the way the Colts did against the Vikings.
    The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The challenge for Stefanski, of course, will be how to divvy up the pie amongst all of his skill players.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Humans and animals alike must decide how to divvy up the day.
    Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 28 June 2018
  • The new sites will divvy up the tests among the lab network to try to get results back to people as quickly as possible.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Arranged in eight neat rows, 32 orange-tree planters bear quotes from L.A. locals about the perks of divvying things up.
    Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 June 2018
  • The big picture: Parks officials will use the voting process to help divvy up $5.2 million in parks funding this year.
    Melissa Santos, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Looking at how those are divvied up, there were 93 nominations for FX alone.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024

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