How to Use long division in a Sentence

long division

noun

• Now imagine trying to grasp long division, cell structure, the Bill of Rights.
  — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Austin Peay entered the night with the nation's longest Division I-A losing streak at 27 games.
  — Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• The teacher had placed a yellow sheet of paper on every desk, and his classmates were using it to do the long division required on the test.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2021
• Maybe a genius or one of those math eggheads who can do long division, but not regular people like him.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 Sep. 2017
• But how much schooling can really be done in places designed for leisure, not long division?
  — Kelsey Ogletree, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• Will anyone care about driving skill if it's relegated to the status of long division?
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2015
• For example, for long division, students used colored pencils to match the strokes of the divisor in the dividend.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2022
• That’s because my grandfather Burt, the man who taught me how to ride a bike, do long division, and that we were given two ears and one mouth for a reason, used to eat it regularly.
  — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022
• Day 14: Spent the entire day attempting to relearn long division.
  — Daniel Kibblesmith, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2020
• My hunch — and certainly my hope — is that by the time your son is learning long division, fussing over images like these should mainly be a thing of the past: #FreeTheNipple seems to be gaining ground.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Helping children make their way through a book – versus, say, teaching them long division – may come more naturally to caregivers.
  — USA Today, 22 Dec. 2020
• Eleven-year-old Melissa sits in a yellow schoolhouse on the outskirts of Tijuana, joining the chorus of voices answering a teacher who instructs the class on long division.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
• Ali remembers the particular way her mother talked her through long division.
  — Catherine Newman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• Her daughter’s middle school math class started with geometry, but her fifth grade at the elementary school had barely touched long division.
  — Alden Woods, ProPublica, 6 Aug. 2020
• The library also has accounts with SkillSurfer, which helps with long division and reading comprehension; and Writing Lab, where students can get feedback on the structure, grammar and style of their writing.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 15 Sep. 2022
• The nuns at his parochial school removed their traditional habits, and his sixth-grade math teacher, Sister Maryann, occasionally taught the class Simon & Garfunkel songs instead of long division.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• After Anthony’s teacher refused to teach her long division and told her to learn needlepoint instead, Daniel added a homeschooling room where his children could receive a more diverse education.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
• Is this moment more like the invention of the calculator, saving me from the tedium of long division, or more like the invention of the player piano, robbing us of what can be communicated only through human emotion?
  — Daniel Herman, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2022
• The system offers flexibility and the option to go at your own pace, which has been helpful given the family’s movements but also puts pressure on Cochran-Ray to be a full-time teacher, tackling everything from long division to natural science.
  — USA Today, 15 Nov. 2020
• Finding the remainder, to me, is a part of long division which left me feeling rather horrified.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• If these guys think winning is hard, don’t let them near long division.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
• Instead, my days are spent talking about long division or with my hand up an Elmo puppet.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2024
• Ali remembers the particular way her mother talked her through long division.
  — Catherine Newman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2024