How to Use divvy in a Sentence

divvy

verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Roundtable doesn’t offer breakdowns for how to divvy up the $5 billion.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • How the Colts divvy up the snaps at running back without Jonathan Taylor available remains to be seen.
    The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Belichick was asked how the team would divvy up the quarterback reps with Newton absent.
    Mark Daniels, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • Whether all of these will divvy up infections in the next few months, or whether they’ll be pushed aside by something new, is still anyone’s guess.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Better yet, divvy up the pan and place a variety of toppings in each quadrant, from fruit to chocolate chips.
    Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The networks plan to divvy up the contests so each has a powerful Saturday draw.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In the 105 years since their creation, these Inverted Jennies have been divvied up, changing hands dozens of times.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The port, city, county and Boeing hoped to divvy up the tab and clean the river without triggering the Superfund process.
    Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Nicole can’t quit micromanaging things, like how the kids divvy up their room or how much time Quinn spends playing video games.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 July 2021
  • Arrangements work best when siblings can divvy up tasks that play to each other’s strengths.
    Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Prosecutors say Alexander used her access to the Day Center’s mail room to steal mail and divvy up the checks with her then-boyfriend.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Regional groups divvy up slots in backroom deals, and democracies rarely put up a fight.
    Hillel C. Neuer, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • Fans seem willing to pay to be outfitted like Ohtani with demand soaring and profits to divvy up.
    Stephen Wade, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
  • With Auburn looking to divvy reps, not too much should be read into that opening-day rotation.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Of course, there is no single right or wrong way for couples to divvy up their finances and financial duties.
    Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The winning team Sunday will divvy up $42 million among 26 players, little more than a week’s worth for Messi in his day job.
    Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The big, unanswered question: Exactly how much water is there to divvy, and how long can the Southwest expect to rely on it?
    Ella Nilsen, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023

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