How to Use section in a Sentence

section

1 of 2 noun

• This section of the road is closed.
• The siding comes in five-foot sections.
• Do you want to sit in the nonsmoking section?
• The dictionary includes a section on signs and symbols.
• Section 1123 of the bankruptcy code.
• That’s why the kid was in that section.
  — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
• If your couch is big, this can be done in sections.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
• Now that section of their yard is dead - thanks to the drought.
  — Bri Buckley, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
• But let’s get to that in the section below.
  — Joseph Person, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• One of the top athletes in the section.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
• The comment section told her the snake was drawn by the food.
  — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 16 May 2026
• Just a section of wall still standing.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
• Ten films will compete in that section.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
• The first section of the play needs trims and the ending feels rushed.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
• The blog’s comments section was a mixed, um, bag.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
• There was a large section of baseball fans who tuned in from the metro.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
• The comments section fawned over the clip.
  — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
• There’s also a whole bloody section on, well, blood.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
• Just wave to the entire section.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
• Down in the lower bowl, the ice cream line stretched five sections long.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
• The comments section took it well.
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• Look for a firmware update section.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
• Brooke gushed in the comments section.
  — Jack Irvin, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Break up your space into sections.
  — Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 12 Jan. 2026
• Gomez added in the comments section.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• My favorite section is kids’ books.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2026
• The water was at least a meter deep in sections of the cave.
  — Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 31 May 2026
• Make sure to clean in small sections from left to right, working your way around the room.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
• Make sure to clean in small sections from left to right, working your way around the room.
  — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
• Head to Nordstrom to check out the rest of its epic sale section.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026

section

2 of 2 verb

• She was sectioned by the judge.
• Peel and section the orange.
• Section the chicken and marinate the parts.
• But there's such a taboo around the idea of people who are sectioned.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
• But there's such a taboo around the idea of people who are sectioned.
  — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
• Black people are four times more likely to be sectioned than whites.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Plus, the retractable pick at the end is great for sectioning my hair.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• There are flat panels on the bow and stern decks, sectioned into grids.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2015
• So, where does section 179 fit into all of this?
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• At one end is a single bunk sectioned off by a red blackout curtain.
  — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 8 Sep. 2017
• In the video, a woman is seen sectioning off her hair to give herself bangs.
  — Kelsi Zimmerman, Allure, 1 Nov. 2017
• Use it to section off an area or to create a makeshift dressing room in your bedroom.
  — Tierney McAfee, Country Living, 27 July 2022
• Start by parting your hair at your natural part line, and then section off your hair with clips.
  — Samantha Driscoll, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2020
• Each night, strictly section off your time for the next day to focus on specific tasks.
  — Brian Cristiano, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• Crews dismantled the white fences that sectioned off the rings where champions were to be crowned.
  — Jonathan Bullington, The Courier-Journal, 14 Mar. 2020
• Just section off several braids and wrap them into bantu knots.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 17 Feb. 2023
• Starting with clean, dry hair, section your hair following the steps outlined above.
  — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 17 Apr. 2026
• Some are very organized (like my skin-care), others are just sectioned off and filled with palettes.
  — Emily Rekstis, SELF, 24 Apr. 2018
• Walls have been inserted to section off two bedrooms, but sliding doors mean that the space can be opened out or closed off.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• Now section your hair from the part to the outer corner of your eyebrow and comb that section straight out away from your face.
  — Redbook, 29 June 2011
• That’s handled by using a moveable wall to section off part of the terminal.
  — Geoffrey Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2018
• Plexiglass will section off each judge, witness and court reporter.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• The processing center is sectioned off by pieces of cyclone fence attached in some places with bolts and zip ties.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• The ability to taste sweet, salty, sour and bitter isn’t sectioned off to different parts of the tongue.
  — Steven D Munger, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
• The flat expanse of tall grasses bleached by the sun and the dry winter season was sectioned off by high chain-link fences and barbed wire.
  — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• The worst call it Galactlitcos, and these tasteless few are swiftly sectioned.
  — SI.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• The dog park's interior would be sectioned off into big dog and little dog areas.
  — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2018
• Start by sectioning the bottom (or underside) half of your hair into a sleek ponytail, and braid the ends.
  — Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 10 Sep. 2025
• In fact, there are ropes sectioning off certain areas in the forest and warning people about how they may get turned around.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• Fan zones have been sectioned off with barriers, while the streets surrounding the stadium are closed.
  — CNN, 2 June 2017