How to Use great divide in a Sentence

great divide

noun
  • That, maybe, he was marked to return home and help bridge a great divide.
    SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Lord of leaves and fishes, lead me across this great divide.
    Barbara Kingsolver, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In the world of wine, the great divide is between Bordeaux and Burgundy.
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The great divide between the two Latins may well be money.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The great divide between white and black NFL fans on this issue seems to be stuck on the issue of the flag.
    Jeff Caplan, star-telegram, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Judge Kavanaugh is on the other side of that great divide.
    Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
  • But there's clearly a great divide on why prices were so high to begin with.
    Ali Fazal, Fortune, 8 July 2022
  • The great escape and the great divide, still intertwined.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
  • There has been a great divide between the best and worst stock-market sectors this year.
    William Power, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The ones telling me to narrow the great divide by respecting the perspectives of the Trumpists in my life.
    Andrew Cohen, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The great divide ended last week, though, with Xavier's first week of summer practice.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2020
  • There has never been a greater divide between the two parties.
    Stephanie Toone, ajc, 4 Feb. 2020
  • But, there is still a lot of work to do to ease the great divide between education and wellness.
    Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • This group of quarterbacks highlights the NFL's great divide.
    Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
  • So why not set aside the great divide and all the hollow gestures that go with it, for now, and focus on our real problems and needs?
    Star Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
  • While everyone seemed to agree that the city has a plethora of very real issues to deal with, there is a great divide about what which one should be dealt with first and how.
    Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2022
  • And no more of the great divide between Jeanie on the business side and everyone else in the basketball department.
    Sam Amick, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
  • But as the pandemic rips apart the economy, one of the greatest divides may be between those who can work remotely and those who can't.
    NBC News, 8 May 2020
  • No, the great divide of our time is between the political agenda of the leadership elite and the great and broad middle of our society.
    Thomas Meaney, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • There is great divide between the people and our local government.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The study shows a great divide in expectations between Black and White Americans.
    Simone E. Morris, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Sooner or later, one mutation hits pay dirt and allows the virus to cross the great divide between different species.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Boost Flavor with Spice or Broth Another great divide between plain rice and pilaf?
    Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Politics and rhetoric have created a great divide in our country.
    Safid Deen, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • One of the greatest divides is generational; that will hardly heal if oldies sit out the experience.
    The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Second, with the great divide in conservative theory, there are those who are anti-Left and those who are anti-state.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • With so much of the delegate pool at stake in one night, will a single candidate walk away with a lead in delegates that is hard to catch or will the math shake out to show a great divide that could take months to heal and process?
    Maryalice Parks, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Adoption laws show one of the greatest divides – exemplified in a single state: Michigan.
    Veronica Bravo, USA TODAY, 14 June 2019
  • The deep fissures in our society that run along the lines of race, gender and education deepened, and the great divide between those companies that are tech savvy and those that are not widened.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Yet plenty of people throughout history have spanned this great divide.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022

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