SPLIT in a Sentence

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94 example sentences for SPLIT, such as:

1. The war has split the nation in two.
2. They split up after a year of marriage.
3. For a split second the two men hesitated.
4. Her gaze met Michael's for a split second.
5. Ashley wasn't bred to plow and split rails.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPLIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
split
 v.  break apart; cut; devide
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  As she half rose from her seat to look closer, the giant caught sight of her and his black face split in a grin of delighted recognition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  When he was able to totter about the house, he turned his hands to weaving baskets of split oak and mending the furniture ruined by the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  She could hear the sound of the axe ringing as Ashley split into rails the logs hauled from the swamp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  She would rather split logs herself than suffer while he did it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Ashley wasn't bred to plow and split rails.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Jim Tarleton, little Hugh Munroe, Alex Fontaine and old man McRae's youngest grandson came slowly and awkwardly down the path from the house bearing Gerald's coffin on two lengths of split oak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
8  Immediately the fires which smoldered beneath tight basques flamed wildly and the two organizations split up and glared hostilely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Scarlett, looking sorrowfully down the long vista of years to come, knew that she was the cause of a feud that would split the town and the family for generations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
10  But now they were split in twain and the town was privileged to witness cousins of the fifth and sixth degree taking sides in the most shattering scandal Atlanta had ever seen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
11  Even his own party was split, so great had public indignation become.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
12  Meadow larks called from the tops of thin split fence-posts.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  This is the sort of weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
15  How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  The government has deeply split on this issue.
17  The war has split the nation in two.
18  I would rather pay for a meal than watch nine friends pick over and split a bill.
19  A government split would have dire consequences for domestic peace.
20  Yet it is feared the Republican leadership could split over the agreement.
21  The scientist Ernest Rutherford was the first person to split the atom.
22  Her gaze met Michael's for a split second.
23  For a split second the two men hesitated.
24  They split up after a year of marriage.
25  His proposal to lower the threshold for the top rate of tax has split opinion within his coalition.
26  A fierce quarrel split the partnership asunder: the two partners finally sundered their connections because their points of view were poles apart.
27  The committee split along party lines over the issue.
28  He got back home barely in season to help Jim, the small colored boy, saw next-day's wood and split the kindlings before supper.
29  They have also had to contend with a split shift that requires them to drive routes in the morning and evening with no pay in between.
30  Many single cell organisms reproduce by splitting in two.