How to Use divisible in a Sentence

divisible

adjective

• Then list all the numbers that aren’t divisible by those primes.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
• Then list all the numbers that aren’t divisible by those primes.
  — Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2025
• But if 3n + 1 is not divisible by 4, then is odd, and the orbit will rise.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• There are tricks to quickly know if, say, some huge number is divisible by 9 or 11.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
• In that book, Derek’s mind hums with ideas about landscape, about the body, and how each is not divisible from the other.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
• Mortgages are another form of debt that are divisible in a divorce.
  — Dallas News, 13 May 2021
• If this distance is divisible by 8 inches—the finished width of a piece of siding—you’re in luck.
  — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• If this distance is divisible by 8 inches—the finished width of a piece of siding—you're in luck.
  — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• To make matters even more confusing, a leap day is still added in years divisible by 400.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Even numbers get a very low score, odd numbers divisible by 3 are only slightly higher, and so on.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
• If 3n + 1 is also divisible by 4, then is also even, and the orbit will fall.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• Our living — as Black and not yet free — was not divisible from the terror of the white world and the effects those constraints had on us.
  — Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
• Elliptic curves also have a lot to do with prime numbers, which are only divisible by 1 and themselves.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• To be prime, a number needs to avoid being divisible by any whole number smaller than itself (save the number 1).
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2018
• But Rosenfeld had already shown that in any counterexample, the product would have to be divisible by all those primes.
  — Paulina Rowińska, Wired News, 18 Apr. 2026
• But Rosenfeld had already shown that in any counterexample, the product would have to be divisible by all those primes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
• But, if the year is also evenly divisible by 400, it is then designated a leap year.
  — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2020
• That is why the year 2000 was still a leap year despite being divisible by 100.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
• That the notion of the endlessly divisible in the world was attended by certain problems.
  — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• And there is an exception to that exception when the year is divisible by 400; in that case, the leap day is added as normal.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
• To fix this small discrepancy, century years which are not divisible by 400 are not leap years.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
• To refine our calendar even further, all years evenly divisible by 400 are not leap years.
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
• The stalk attached to this point would contain all the fractions whose denominators are not divisible by 5.
  — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
• The primes—numbers that are only divisible by themselves and 1—are the most fundamental building blocks in math.
  — Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2025
• The fact that 97 is a prime number—divisible only by 1 or itself—is supposed to make the system more secure.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• The primes — numbers that are only divisible by themselves and 1 — are the most fundamental building blocks in math.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
• So every year that is exactly divisible by 4 is a leap year, in which a 29th day is added to February.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• The building owner is marketing the site as divisible, meaning more than one business may end up occupying the space.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
• Each hour in turn is divisible by 60 arcminutes and each arcminute in turn by 60 arcseconds.
  — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Mar. 2021
• Now, a leap year occurs in every year that is divisible by four, but only in century years that are evenly divided by 400.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 28 Feb. 2020