How to Use divided in a Sentence

divided

adjective

• Experts are sharply divided on the issue.
• The issue has created a deeply divided nation.
• She feels like she only gets her mother's divided attention.
• Now is the right time to launch the platform in such a divided world.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
• The cars were both in the westbound lanes of the divided highway.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2024
• People were very divided on it in the reviews of the tour.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
• Whether a trust can be so divided is complex and depends on the terms of the trust.
  — Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Of course, the show wasn’t all a reminder of our divided, racist nation.
  — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022
• And Israelis have gotten wise to the games Bibi has played in the past to keep them divided and distracted.
  — Micah L. Sifry, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• But a divided appeals court revived the case this month.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• The dough can be prepared, divided, wrapped in plastic wrap, and stored in the fridge for one day before rolling out.
  — Molly Bolton, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2024
• And in a time in which the world can feel very divided, this is more important than ever.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• The restaurant’s theme celebrates the best of land and sea, and the two sections of the divided restaurant reflect that.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
• Just as the justices have grown more divided, so has their staff, eroding trust.
  — Jodi Kantor, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• But a divided legislative branch with Biden still in the White House could be the recipe for a debt-ceiling repeat.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• With a divided Congress, what do people think of the parties' stances?
  — Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2023
• Performed in 2022, in the midst of an overseas war and a divided nation, the song can arguably take on new meanings.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2022
• Korea is still at war, North and South, legally, but there is an armistice and a divided country.
  — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 July 2024
• Hall was in bed inside his room on the upstairs level of the divided residence when a massive tree crashed through the roof of the home.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
• This month, a divided three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed most of the judge’s order.
  — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2021
• Democrats remain divided on the massive spending bill that amounts to the bulk of Biden's plan to cut carbon emissions.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
• But the poll showed that Democrats remain deeply divided about the prospect of Mr. Biden, the 81-year-old chief executive, leading the party again.
  — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• This race has shown me that the community is still deeply divided.
  — Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
• The nation’s so divided, this kind of reminds us about what’s important, and what can unite us.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 23 Nov. 2022
• The country is so divided that the red team and the blue team are not talking to each other, and the dismissal of one side by the other is not going to solve the problem.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Watts grew up in the Peoria area, which is well known for its divided fan support between the Cubs and Cardinals.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
• The House committee endorsed amending the bill in a divided voice vote.
  — Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2021
• Its members are much more divided and their leader, Keir Starmer, has tried to avoid taking sides.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• Now, Francis leaves a somewhat divided Catholic faithful.
  — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2025
• Despite no written explanation from the justices, charter school advocates hailed the divided opinion as a win.
  — Sophie Hills, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025