SUNDER in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for SUNDER, such as:

1. The city is being sundered by racial tension.
2. He hated her and was forever sundered from her.
3. We sunder the walls, and lay open the inner city.
4. An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them.
5. Why did they sunder northern and southern Ireland politically and religiously?.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUNDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sunder
 v.  separate; break or wrench apart
Classic Sentence:
1  We sunder the walls, and lay open the inner city.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
2  I done what I could to keep you and Tickler in sunders, but my power were not always fully equal to my inclinations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
3  Gargery's power to part you and Tickler in sunders were not fully equal to his inclinations.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
4  It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
5  He was immediately chained and handcuffed; and thus, without a moment's warning, he was snatched away, and forever sundered, from his family and friends, by a hand more unrelenting than death.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  He hated her and was forever sundered from her.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Why did they sunder northern and southern Ireland politically and religiously?.
2  A fierce quarrel split the partnership asunder: the two partners finally sundered their connections because their points of view were poles apart.
3  The city is being sundered by racial tension.