POLARIZE in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for POLARIZE, such as:

1. We saw a baby polar bear at the zoo.
2. It's very cold in the polar regions.
3. Public opinion has polarized on this issue.
4. The polar vortex is a system of wintertime winds.
5. The two systems of government are polar opposites.

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 Meanings and Examples of POLARIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
polarize
 v.  split into opposite extremes or camps
Classic Sentence:
1  The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  He showed me also, in one of his books, the figures of the sun, moon, and stars, the zodiac, the tropics, and polar circles, together with the denominations of many plains and solids.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
3  As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
4  Duncan had no other guide than a distant glimmering light, which served, however, the office of a polar star to the lover.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
5  It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The abortion issue will polarize the country into pro-choice and anti-abortion camps.
2  Missile deployment did much to further polarize opinion in Britain.
3  We saw a baby polar bear at the zoo.
4  The polar explorers took every precaution to minimize the dangers of their trip.
5  It's very cold in the polar regions.
6  As our climate warms up, the polar ice caps will begin to melt.
7  The Antarctic species have few special adaptations for polar life.
8  The white fur of the polar bear is a natural camouflage.
9  The polar vortex is a system of wintertime winds.
10  From 2007 to 2012, we witnessed a 375 percent increase in the number of polar bear skins offered at auction, with their hides fetching record high prices in 2012.
11  A polar vortex, with its satisfyingly assonant vowels and crisp consonants, sounds like either a down coat made by Patagonia or an enormous luxury-brand SUV—that is, an expensive product meant to evoke the wilds but actually used by coddled suburbanites.
12  The two systems of government are polar opposites.
13  Public opinion has polarized on this issue.
14  Public opinion is sharply polarized on this issue.
15  The debate is becoming polarized and there seems to be no middle ground.