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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