PARTITION in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for PARTITION, such as:

1. The partitions between the toilets were very thin.
2. There is a plywood partition between the two rooms.
3. In banquet halls folding partitions are very popular.
4. She tapped on the glass partition and the car stopped.
5. Petritsky went behind the partition and lay down on his bed.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARTITION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
partition
 v.  divide into parts, pieces, or sections
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT
2  All contemporary social crimes have their origin in the partition of Poland.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
3  The partition of Poland is a theorem of which all present political outrages are the corollaries.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  There has not been a despot, nor a traitor for nearly a century back, who has not signed, approved, counter-signed, and copied, ne variatur, the partition of Poland.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  Marius examined the partition, almost unconsciously; sometimes revery examines, observes, and scrutinizes as thought would.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
6  He bounded rather than climbed upon his commode, and resumed his post near the little peep-hole in the partition wall.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS
7  In a twinkling, and with the agility of his age, he had reached the hole in the partition.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
8  Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
9  It is a partition made by the butcher, which kills that which it divides.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
10  The voice became more and more indistinct; a tumultuous movement shook the partition.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
11  Kitty went to her mistress, and did not leave the door open; but the partition was so thin that one could hear nearly all that passed between the two women.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
12  But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  The landlord in his shirt-sleeves, leaning against the bar window-frame; his wife looking over the little half-door; and I, in some confusion, looking up at them from outside the partition.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
14  Vronsky was staying in a roomy, clean, Finnish hut, divided into two by a partition.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 20
15  Petritsky went behind the partition and lay down on his bed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 20
Example Sentence:
1  There is a plywood partition between the two rooms.
2  She tapped on the glass partition and the car stopped.
3  Before their second daughter was born, they decided each child needed a room, and so they planned to partition a large bedroom into two small separate rooms.
4  The partitions between the toilets were very thin.
5  In banquet halls folding partitions are very popular.