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Example sentences for "division"

Lexicographically close words:
divino; divinum; divis; divisibility; divisible; divisional; divisione; divisions; divisive; divisor
  1. We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilised invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name.

  2. Let us therefore examine this general division which we have made with regard to the external character of mountains.

  3. Four is the prevailing number outside the large division of the Rat-like Rodents.

  4. In the latter, the oesophagus opens into the first compartment as usual; but the second division of the stomach arises not close to the entrance of the oesophagus, but at the opposite end.

  5. The Selenodontia or Ruminantia form the second division of existing Artiodactyles.

  6. In any case we shall adopt here the usual division of the Marsupials into Diprotodontia and Polyprotodontia.

  7. That division of the Carnivora which is typically represented by the Bears embraces three recent families, which are united by a number of characters.

  8. This multiplication or rather division of genera has arisen from an old idea that Whales coming from different seas must be of different kinds, a notion now thoroughly exploded.

  9. It lives apparently upon bird's eggs and small birds, though it belongs to the Diprotodont division of the Marsupials.

  10. Finally, the number of the back teeth shows some signs of being on the increase; and Professor Kuekenthal has found that this increase is due to the division of existing teeth.

  11. The animals known as Lemurs, from their nocturnal and ghostly habits, are on a lower level of organisation than the other division of the Primates.

  12. This family of Whales is again susceptible of division into the two sub-families--Physeterinae or Sperm Whales and the Ziphiinae or Beaked Whales.

  13. In this mainly carnivorous or insectivorous division of the Marsupials the incisors are four or five on each side of the upper jaw, and one or two fewer in the lower jaw.

  14. This difference of opinion led to a division of the company, the Bishop re-embarking with Father Ladrada and a few of the others, while the majority were left to follow the overland route.

  15. Ovando’s division reached Hispaniola on the fifteenth of April and the second squadron came safely to port some twelve days later.

  16. The four primary passions having been formulated, it became necessary to justify the division by arranging the specific forms of feeling under these four heads.

  17. This division indeed was in existence before their time, but they have got the credit of it as of some other things which they did not originate.

  18. Unfortunately, when it came to practice, all were found to be goats, so that the division was a merely formal one.

  19. The division may also be justified in this way.

  20. Murtogh himself, with another division of his troops, was on an incursion into Antrim when he heard of this defeat.

  21. One leading fact, which we have to follow in all its consequences through the whole of the fifteenth century, is the division of the English and of the Anglo-Irish interest into two parties, Lancasterians and Yorkists.

  22. Murkertach, the base of whose early operations was his own patrimony in Ulster, attacked near Newry a Northern division under the command of the son of Godfrey (A.

  23. An arbitrary division once limited the free clans to six in the southern half-kingdom, and six in the north; and the unfree also to six.

  24. Besides its impossibility, the suggestion implies a brutal disregard of the division of labour by which we live and move and have our being.

  25. Footnote 230: The find is described by Heir Czersky in the Transactions published by the East Siberian division of the St. Petersburg Geographical Society; and subsequently by Dr.

  26. It was not till after the conquest and division of Canaan that the provisions of this enactment were practically fulfilled.

  27. Achmet Djezzar, the pasha of that division of Palestine which stretches from the borders of Egypt to the Gulf of Sidon, had thrown himself into this fortress with a considerable army, determined to defend it to the last extremity.

  28. Meantime, we supply, in the following table, the means of comparing the division or distribution of Canaan among the Twelve Tribes, with that which was afterward adopted by the Romans.

  29. The first application of astronomical principle is to the division of time, as marked out by the periodical movements of the heavenly bodies.

  30. From the prison they went to the altar of the Division of our Lord's garments, where they only sang their hymn without adding any sermon.

  31. There is another grand division of my subject, but the difficulty of presenting it through the medium of written language is even greater than that already dealt with, and only a slight attempt will now be made.

  32. From Spanish accounts the Busaos are a separate division of Igorots.

  33. There is little resemblance between the parts of one side; and it is symmetry which results from the uniform disposition of double parts, and from the regular division of single ones.

  34. Prichard remarks, that "this division of temperaments is by no means a fanciful distinction.

  35. As the spoils were numerous and valuable, everyone got a good share, which, with the fact that the division was fair and equitable, contributed much to the satisfaction and pleasure of all who participated in them.

  36. The latter now divided his army, which the exhausted country was unable to support, and leaving one division to protect Franconia, with the other he prosecuted in person his conquests in Bavaria.

  37. If the pretensions of a rival would be so irksome to the Duke of Friedland, in the conduct of combined operations, in the division of the spoil they would be insupportable.

  38. To protect these conquests, the chancellor Oxenstiern was left with a division of the army upon the Middle Rhine, while the main body, under the king himself, began its march against the enemy in Franconia.

  39. Legouve attaches great importance to the religious question as a cause of division between fathers and sons because in the present day young men so frequently imbibe opinions which are not those of their parents.

  40. The conventional division between "educated" and "uneducated" men is so definite that it is easily seen.

  41. A very common cause of division between father and son, in old times, was the following.

  42. In a dispute over a division of plunder Lee stabs one of his men and tosses him overboard.

  43. One of the mines containing lead and silver, eighteen miles southwest of Galena, was worked by seven men, who could not agree as to a division of the yield.

  44. Across these fantastic reports of older time there come echoes of a later instruction, adapted and blended into native legend so that the point of division cannot be indicated.

  45. They had seen in camp that winter so much of the frailty of human temper that, although full of faith by now in each other's native sense and fairness, they left nothing to a haphazard division of labour.

  46. A division of the club was the final result, and James was chosen president of the new society.

  47. Garfield was not present, so he passed on to the division commander.

  48. Bragg's army had been reinforced by a large detachment under General Longstreet, and McLawes' division was expected every moment.

  49. It is not certainly known how large his division is, but it is known to contain at least two brigades.

  50. It consisted of one thousand one hundred men, while Garfield's larger division numbered about seventeen hundred.

  51. Whether or not this armored division is the most optimally configured force for such an operation is not relevant for the moment even though this unit probably was the most appropriate for this task.

  52. We have begun this effort and are focusing on a joint task force sized somewhere between a reinforced division and a full corps (i.

  53. What would be the lessons learned if several hundred canisters of live Sensor Fused Weapons were released by a red force ballistic missile on the 24th Division during a Fort Irwin engagement?

  54. Army brigade of the 10th Mountain Division with helicopters replaced much of the carrier air wing and flew off the carrier Eisenhower during the Haiti operation.

  55. Recently, a brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division rapidly deployed by air from Ft.

  56. But Rodulf occupied the middle parts of the kingdom, Oda the western parts, and Beorngar with Witha held the kingdom of the Lombards from the division of the Jovian mountain.

  57. Thus was the threefold division of the companies arranged at all times in the royal household.

  58. In fact, all traces of the heptarchy, or ancient division of the island into provinces, did not entirely disappear until some years after the Norman conquest.

  59. I shall conclude this subject with observing, that we never had any Tories in Scotland, according to the proper signification of the word, and that the division of parties in this country was really into Whigs and Jacobites.

  60. Here, on the southern end of the town, the Mexicans had erected a fort against General Wool, when his division was expected to march towards Chihuahua.

  61. Denver, Leadville and Gunnison division of the U.

  62. Natchitoches, below the Yattassees [a tribe that lived on Bayou Pierre or Stony creek], on a lake called Lac Macdon, which communicated with the division of Red river that passes by Bayau Pierre.

  63. Our ship carried eight horse-boats, which were to be used by the 29th Division in their landing at Cape Helles.

  64. As night came on we appeared to have a good hold of the place, and orders came for our bearer division to land.

  65. Those in the Tent Division dress the cases and perform nursing duties, while the Transport Division undertakes their conveyance to Base Hospital.

  66. On the third of August we received orders to remove to the left flank, the right being held by the Australian Division which participated in the operation known afterwards as Lone Pine.

  67. The commanding officers of all the ambulances in General Godley's Division met in the gully and had the operation orders explained to them by the A.

  68. The Division started to march out just after dark, the 4th Brigade leading.

  69. General Godley, in whose division we were, told me how pleased he was with the work of the Ambulance and how proud he was to have them in his command.

  70. Our Brigade was camped just across the road, and formed part of the New Zealand and Australian Division under General Sir Alexander Godley.

  71. In the summer of 1793, Gravina commanded a division of the Spanish fleet in the Mediterranean, of which Admiral Langara was the commander-in-chief.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "division" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberration; abstraction; addition; adjunct; affiliate; affiliation; alien; alienation; alteration; analysis; anatomy; apartheid; approximation; arabesque; area; argosy; arm; armada; army; arrangement; article; assay; aye; ballot; band; barrier; battalion; battery; belt; bevy; bifurcation; blood; body; bracket; branch; branching; breach; break; breakdown; breakup; bridge; brigade; buffer; bulkhead; bumper; bunch; burden; bureau; cabal; cadence; cadenza; cadre; camp; canvass; cast; caste; category; caucus; change; chorus; church; circle; clan; class; cleavage; cleft; clique; cloture; coda; cohort; coloratura; column; communion; community; company; compartment; complement; component; confines; constituent; contingent; contradistinction; corps; corridor; coterie; country; covey; crew; crowd; cushion; cut; cutting; debate; deliberation; demarcation; denomination; department; deployment; detachment; detail; development; deviation; diaphragm; dichotomy; difference; differentiation; difficulty; disaffection; disagreement; disassociation; disconnection; discontinuity; discord; discrimination; disengagement; disfavor; disjunction; dislocation; disparity; disruption; dissection; dissolution; distinction; distribution; district; disunion; divergence; diversification; division; divorce; dole; embellishment; environs; estate; evolution; exclusiveness; exposition; extrapolation; faction; family; fellowship; fender; field; figure; file; filibuster; filing; fleet; flight; flotilla; flourish; fraction; fracture; franchise; gang; gap; garrison; grace; grade; grading; ground; group; grouping; halving; head; heading; hinterland; incidental; installment; insularity; insulation; integration; interest; interlude; intermezzo; interpolation; introduction; inversion; involution; isolation; item; junta; kin; label; land; league; level; local; lodge; marine; mat; measure; member; midriff; milieu; mischief; misunderstanding; mob; modification; moiety; movement; multiplication; navy; nay; neighborhood; nonunion; notation; nuance; odds; office; offshoot; order; organ; organization; ornament; outcast; outfit; outsider; pack; pad; panel; parcel; part; particular; parting; partition; parts; party; passage; percentage; period; persuasion; phalanx; phrase; piece; pigeonhole; place; placement; platoon; plebiscite; polarization; poll; portion; position; posse; post; practice; precincts; predicament; premises; proportion; province; proxy; purlieus; quadrant; quarantine; quarter; quota; race; ramification; rank; ranking; rating; ration; rationing; reduction; referendum; refrain; regiment; region; remainder; removal; representation; resolution; response; rift; rubric; run; rupture; salient; salon; sample; say; schism; school; seclusion; sect; section; sector; segment; segmentation; segregation; separation; separatism; sept; septum; severance; share; sharing; side; society; soil; sorting; space; specialization; splinter; split; splitting; spread; squad; squadron; stable; stage; stanza; statement; station; status; strain; stranger; stratification; stratum; string; subdivision; subgroup; suborder; subtraction; suffrage; tabulation; taxonomy; team; terrain; territory; tightness; title; train; transformation; tribe; troop; troupe; turn; typology; unit; variance; variation; variety; verse; version; vicinity; voice; vote; voting; wall; wing; withdrawal; yea; yes; zoning; panel; parcel; part; particular; parting; partition; parts; party; passage; percentage; period; persuasion; phalanx; phrase; piece; pigeonhole; place; placement; platoon; plebiscite; polarization; poll; portion; position; posse; post; practice; precincts; predicament; premises; proportion; province; proxy; purlieus; quadrant; quarantine; quarter; quota; race; ramification; rank; ranking; rating; ration; rationing; reduction; referendum; refrain; regiment; region; remainder; removal; representation; resolution; response; rift; rubric; run; rupture; salient; salon; sample; say; schism; school; seclusion; sect; section; sector; segment; segmentation; segregation; separation; separatism; sept; septum; severance; share; sharing; side; society; soil; sorting; space; specialization; splinter; split; splitting; spread; squad; squadron; stable; stage; stanza; statement; station; status; strain; stranger; stratification; stratum; string; subdivision; subgroup; suborder; subtraction; suffrage; tabulation; taxonomy; team; terrain; territory; tightness; title; train; transformation; tribe; troop; troupe; turn; typology; unit; variance; variation; variety; verse; version; vicinity; voice; vote; voting; wall; wing; withdrawal; yea; yes


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    division headquarters; division superintendent; division was; divisions were