How to Use partition in a Sentence

partition

1 of 2 noun
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  • A thin partition separates the two rooms in the cabin.
  • The bank teller sat behind a glass partition.
  • Folding partitions separate the different banquet halls in the building.
  • The car also has a TV that rolls up and down, and a partition that can frost over.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • That sends Kamala hurtling back 75 years to the night of the partition of India.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 6 July 2022
  • Day leaned over the partition and placed a gentle kiss on his mom’s cheek.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • The end result would be quasi–home rule, with partition of the island thrown in on top.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
  • And then Kamala finds herself in the middle of the partition.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 6 July 2022
  • Don't sit in the front seat, and sit behind a partition if your driver's car has one.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022
  • In the limo on the way home, Michael put up the partition separating them from their driver.
    — Maria Mercedes Lara, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • The wounds of partition will always be raw, even 75 years later.
    — From Cnn Opinion, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • That's four times the size of the normal Pixel 7 Pro system partition, which is 15GB.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2023
  • King hoisted herself to the top of the partition and hung on for dear life until the lion moseyed off.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • The man waiting on the other side of the glass partition introduced himself as Gabriel.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The offices of the service technical engineers are a labyrinth of gray desks and steel partitions on the third floor.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Next up is the couple's sleeping area, which can be found behind a half-partition.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The Alaska will feature a 4.5-foot bed that can be extended to up to 9.2 feet thanks to fold-down rear seats and a partition at the back of the cabin that folds away.
    — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Hundreds of feet of spiraled wire can be seen along the ground, and some areas show the wire stacked to form a partition several feet tall.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 9 May 2023
  • The United Nations approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
    — CNN, 10 July 2022
  • And, at the request of the owner, the usual partition between the salon and the helm was removed to open up the entire living and dining space.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 6 May 2022
  • That includes 27 percent of the sand used in concrete columns and beams and up to 40 percent of sand used to make mortar for partition walls.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 23 May 2023
  • Designer Hadas Dembo painted the trellis partitions dark green to blend in with the ivy.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The partition saw hundreds of thousands of people killed in riots and fighting.
    — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2023
  • This is a problem, because the rear side doors cannot be opened from inside, and access to the cockpit is denied by glass partitions.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Inside, Moore sits down on one side of a Plexiglas partition.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Creating nooks with partition walls can help give each spot a purpose and create a pleasant flow in your space.
    — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The door plug is visible from outside the plane but looks like a regular partition and window from the inside.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Behind a glass partition, flames surge from the grill as chef Yoshiya Tomori lines its grate with skewered chicken thighs, gizzards and hearts.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • As the anniversary of the partition comes each year, fewer South Asians have a firsthand memory of its horrors.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Prior to the renovation, the tiny apartment had a partition closing off the one bedroom behind a door.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 12 Sep. 2023
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partition

2 of 2 verb
  • After the war, the country was partitioned.
  • It was necessary to partition the work to be done to make the job easier to accomplish.
  • The room is partitioned into four sections.
  • Naor and Regev needed to partition the whole space, not just a slice of it.
    — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
  • To its south lies the boundary of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates that partition the earth's crust.
    — Aline Reynolds, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
  • The patio will be both outside and partitioned off, and a fire pit is going in.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The Palestinians fear Israel plans to take over the site or partition it.
    — Joseph Krauss, ajc, 30 May 2022
  • The six counties of Northern Ireland remained part of the U.K. when the island was partitioned in 1921.
    — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • The Palestinians have long feared that Israel intends to take over the site or partition it.
    — Areej Hazboun and Joseph Krauss, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Palestinians have long feared that Israel plans to take over the site or partition it.
    — Joseph Krauss, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The gym had to be partitioned, and the teachers’ voices echoed, a constant distraction.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • One room can be partitioned for private events of up to 24 people each or 48 total.
    — Joyce Smith, kansascity, 27 July 2017
  • Each parklet will sit atop two to three parking spaces and will be partitioned from the road by barriers.
    — Kaitlyn Bartley, The Mercury News, 1 July 2019
  • In a tank partitioned into three compartments, the female fish was put in the middle, and a male was put on either side of her.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 July 2019
  • The vineyard itself is partitioned into 203 ouvrées, an old term that relates to the amount of land a vigneron can work in a day.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But to one side of the store is an area, complete with refrigerator, sink, grinder and brewer, that can be partitioned from the rest and sets this store apart.
    — Janet I. Tu, The Seattle Times, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Some of the plates were partitioned so that the components stayed separate and organized.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Trump and his top aides have tried to partition the Russia matter away from official White House business.
    — Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • To partition their fields, French farmers built earthen mounds.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The modeling works like this: The researchers first partition a stretch of imaginary peat into square cells—think of it like a sheet of graph paper.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The Palestinians have long feared that Israel plans to eventually take over the site or partition it.
    — Joseph Krauss, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2022
  • Littlefield had a trusty utility knife, and the door possessed a thin section of partitioning that could be pried up by the workings of a blade.
    — Paul Collins, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
  • Her family moved to Saigon, in South Vietnam, after the country was partitioned in 1954.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2018
  • For groups without agreements in place, or those who have not waived their right to partition in an agreement, any co-owner can force a sale of the property at any time.
    — Alex Janin, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • James and Irving had to play massive minutes while Kerr did a good job partitioning his minutes and making sure his stars got rest.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • There are rows and rows of Barbies on shelves and in employees’ cubicles, many of which are partitioned with frilly white curtains.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Tap Google to make sure the setting is enabled Your phone will send an encrypted hash of the database to Google, with the first two bytes unencrypted to partition the database.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 23 Feb. 2021
  • This is far afield from the old concept of academic research being partitioned off from business.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Sudan was engulfed in civil war for two decades before a 2005 peace deal that partitioned the country six years later.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • Raqqa is exceptionally isolated from the rest of the country, even by the standards of a war that has partitioned Syria among the factions fighting over it.
    — Tamer El-Ghobashy, Washington Post, 7 May 2018

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