subdivide

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of subdivide The mortgage as a tool favors scarcity and means existing homeowners will be skeptical of change, including subdividing existing homes. Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 Listen to this article The Poway City Council approved a plan to expand the Parkview Gardens senior care facility and a separate request to subdivide a vacant 43-acre property into two single-family residential parcels. Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 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’s basement appeared to have been subdivided into single rooms separately rented out by individual tenants. Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for subdivide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivide
Verb
  • Know the Signs Cucumbers are typically divided into two main categories: slicing cucumbers and pickling cucumbers.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2025
  • Debate at meeting During the board meeting Thursday night, the room was divided between supporters of Mayer, advocates for the students who came forward, and former students who were against Mayer’s employment from being reinstated.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 12 July 2025
Verb
  • Even the audience is bifurcated, moved out into the wings of the Koch Theater’s stage, leaving the auditorium vacant.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
  • Either way, the mood in Iranian circles close to the regime has bifurcated, I’m told.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • Judkins and his ex-girlfriend had split in December but were rekindling their relationship at the time of the incident, the report shows.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
  • In spring 2025, American Cruise Lines started to end many of its Columbia and Snake River itineraries—which retrace the path of the Lewis and Clark expedition—at the Lewiston port; the line will split itineraries between Lewiston and its twin city, Clarkston, Washington, just across the river.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • And Just Like That … Club, our subscriber-exclusive newsletter obsessing over, dissecting, and debating everything about season three.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 11 July 2025
  • What to do instead: Instead of dissecting their motives or childhood wounds, shift your attention to the actual impact their actions had on you, Brown says.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • By segmenting where data should be centralized, shared across business units or governed at the regional level, Hartsock and her team have built flexibility into the company’s data strategy.
    Peter High, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • We’re fed Apollo Bar highlights like a salad rosso, a globe of radicchio segmented with chunks of blood orange, a blooming artichoke, and seasonal strawberry ice-cream cake.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • Inver Grove Heights is bisected, north to south, by three major thoroughfares – Highway 52, Cahill Avenue and Concord Boulevard.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 9 July 2025
  • Across Route 66, which bisects the West Side park, a couple people played tennis, a man walked his dog and two nurses from a nearby hospital, dressed in scrubs, chatted during a stroll.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).
    WWD, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The initial wave fractionated into smaller 25-foot waves, which reverberated across the fjord for over a week.
    Carly Miller, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Modern Israel was established following a United Nations plan to partition the territory of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • In 1947, the U.N. voted to partition Mandatory Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Subdivide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivide. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on subdivide

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!