How to Use subdivide in a Sentence

subdivide

verb

• The land will be subdivided into building lots.
• He plans to subdivide his property.
• The people who attend the conference can be subdivided into three distinct groups.
• The house is being subdivided into several apartments.
• The area was subdivided into large lots with views of the bay and ocean.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• Now subdivide each face into nine squares with a tic-tac-toe grid, and then delete the middle square.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 4 Mar. 2020
• Large stores may be subdivided into stores-within-stores and kiosks.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• At the base, there is retail space for six to nine stores, depending on how they’re subdivided.
  — Katherine Marks, New York Times, 12 May 2025
• From tree stumps and rocks, the spiny reptiles basked and watched as wooden fences subdivided the landscape.
  — Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
• The home where he was found had been subdivided into roughly a dozen apartments spread across the house’s two floors.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 7 May 2026
• Anyone applying to subdivide a lot must commit to living in one of the units there for at least three years.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• The new owner plans to tear down the lodge and subdivide the property into private homes.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Parcels on the block had been subdivided, depressions in the curb laid for future driveways.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
• It’s lined with long, luxurious alleys of olive trees subdividing each daybed area from the next.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2023
• The company works with homeowners to subdivide their land, build a new home on the new lot, then sell it and split the proceeds.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
• It has already been subdivided into 3 lots, and someday will have one or more estate homes on it.
  — Kansascity, kansascity.com, 19 May 2017
• That speaks of how this once-nearly 800-acre-plus estate has shrunk and been subdivided.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• With that, Yachty preaches (or prays for) inclusion at a time when most feel subdivided.
  — Philly.com, 28 May 2017
• The buyer plans to subdivide the property for a future quick serve restaurant and a small retail strip center.
  — Kathy Jumper, al, 12 Dec. 2021
• The lack of new construction has led Cubans to subdivide their homes, putting more strain on already creaking buildings.
  — Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 14 Sep. 2017
• These models subdivide the atmosphere into a 3D grid that has little cubes of the air.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2019
• The land must be subdivided into lots, and in proximity to village boundaries on three sides.
  — Greg Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
• The plot centers on a young woman named Charlie who lives on a single floor of the old townhouse, now subdivided by the state.
  — Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
• By the 1940s, those expansive lots were subdivided into small homes, many with horse stalls in the back.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Its scale allows for multiple blocks subdivided into smaller parcels and developed over time by a range of builders.
  — Alicia Pederson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
• It’s been subdivided into apartments since at least the 1970s.
  — Rachel Greco, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
• Multiple neighbors said the home where the fire ignited was subdivided.
  — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
• This can be kept for private enjoyment or be subdivided with seven lots available for construction.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
• The nuns sold the property in the 1980s to developers whose plans to subdivide it fell through.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 10 May 2021
• Several years ago, some folks subdivided the area and recut the dirt road to create access to all the other properties.
  — Cheyne Matzenbacher, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2025