How to Use divider in a Sentence

divider

noun
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  • He says that he's a uniter, not a divider.
  • She has proven to be a divider of people.
  • Concrete barriers are used as highway dividers.
  • The fireplace acts as a room divider in the open space.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The staffers placed the slides in a plastic case with dividers so the slides didn’t touch.
    — Wendy Ruderman, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
  • There were no walls, doors or any kind of dividers in the room.
    — Billboard, 6 July 2018
  • If the divider is still rubbery, the nut is not dry enough.
    — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Drive three screws through the bin wall into the divider.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Plant the Garden Put a divider across the bed, right down the middle.
    — D.x. Fenten, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2021
  • In the image below, note how the shapes of the bricks in the wall behind the divider are warped and squished.
    — Monique Woo, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • The rack comes with eight dividers and can withstand up to 50 pounds.
    — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Their car then crashed head-on with an SUV that had crossed over the lane divider.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The sprayer comes with a dose divider to let users know how much to give in each nostril.
    — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Our divider-in-chief could have thought outside the box.
    — Stu Bykofsky, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
  • The cloth divider inside separates the two pieces of the cue.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Moore then teaches me to walk off distance with a divider on the map.
    — Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Some hot pots allow for two bases with a divider that splits the pot down the middle.
    — Magdalena O'Neal, Sunset Magazine, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The exact divider between them, where the ice lifts off, is called the grounding line.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Woods' car struck a sign in the center divider, sheared through a tree and landed in the brush alongside the road.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Although, that’s when a low divider might come in handy!
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2024
  • Trump is, in the words of a predecessor, a 'divider' not a 'uniter'.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 30 May 2020
  • Are the fires the great equalizer, the great divider or the great uniter of Los Angeles?
    — Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • This divider set does not act as one unit and does not include a base, so keep that in mind.
    — Katie Melynn, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The glass can clink together and break in the bag without padded dividers.
    — Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 27 July 2023
  • On the far side of a bookshelf-cum-divider, Mira finds Jonathan’s bed.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Witnesses sit at the front of the room behind a clear divider.
    — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Du told Search a voice had ordered him to crash his car into the divider that night.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The potential for tangling lights is high, in spite of the box’s dividers and wraps for string lights.
    — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Jan. 2024
  • And don’t sleep on the ones with dividers that keep your chicken from running into your broccoli.
    — Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 1 Jan. 2025
  • If so, these adjustable dividers are just what the doctor ordered.
    — Mina Hochberg, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025

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