How to Use separation in a Sentence

separation

noun

• Moving away meant separation from his family.
• After a separation of 30 years, she visited her family in Cuba.
• Scott’s separation did much of the damage on the big play.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Want to know how much of a six degrees of separation kind of town the 305 is?
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
• Once the joy of his release ebbed, the pain of the separation increased.
  — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• The separation will take effect by the end of next year.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 8 Sep. 2022
• And refer to it in the third person as he or she and talk to it to get separation from it.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Set against white walls, the high-contrast paint job creates a sense of separation from the rest of the room.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Nov. 2022
• How far might this erode the principle of the separation of church and state?
  — The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Gave him a step at the top to create separation and keep the angle high.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 5 Feb. 2022
• But the fourth set went back and forth, with neither team able to gain separation.
  — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2022
• Specifically, the separation of the haves and the have-nots won’t change.
  — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
• And yet through such comfort, the pain of living in a time of separation cuts through.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
• But the separation has helped Ohashi feel freer of a tearful past.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
• The grief of this separation was felt equally keenly by both the living and the dead.
  — Piers Vitebsky, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• But the terms of your father’s separation don’t tell you much about him.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• The truth would cause a separation between the teen and the caretaker.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• That is not, though, the only factor in separation at the line.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
• The Raiders scored five quick points to gain some separation, and then continued to score, score and score some more.
  — Eric Rueb, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
• Still, the Queen always sought to take her son's side through their separation.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2022
• So there's always been a bit of a separation between what happens in the books and what happens in the show.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2023
• The re-introduction of an alarm clock gives me the time, space and separation that my phone didn't.
  — Jessica Bumpus, CNN, 24 July 2022
• That was the question that kept arising online in the wake of her separation.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• But she was faced with a woman shaped by 44 years of separation.
  — Yoonjung Seo, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
• Think about what a round-up and separation of your own family would look and feel like.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
• The answer to this question rests in states’ rights and separation of powers.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2023
• James tried to drive but couldn’t create separation as the shot-clock buzzer sounded.
  — Jovan Buha, New York Times, 3 May 2025
• The host of The Kelly Clarkson Show has opened up about how their separation affected her ideas of love.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Specifically, a wet room does not have a separation between the shower and the rest of the bathroom floor.
  — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024
• Flat burrs, meanwhile, are like spinning wheels of death that rotate against each other at a set separation.
  — Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 13 Aug. 2025