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cut in half or cut in two- bisect a line
- The region is bisected by a four-lane highway.
- Past downtown, a single road bisects the highway, and on that road sits Roscoe's lone neighborhood and an elementary school.John Green -- Paper Towns
- Beyond this gorge, there was a great valley bisected by a swift river before it concluded at another range of gray mountains.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Unfortunately, between Annabeth and that exit, the floor was bisected by a chasm fifty feet across.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- In one classic example, subjects were given a drawing of a hexagon bisected by three lines with seven equal-size circles superimposed on top of it.Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
- The Corona was out of the lane, he reported, somewhere south of buoy 56, and would have to dogleg to the northeast, bisecting Ship Channel Bank.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- One of the links bisected the man's mouth like a horse's bit, stifling his cries for help.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- Fat cows and woolly sheep dotted emerald fields bisected with rough hedgerows or silvery gray rock walls.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- Against the khaki-colored sand and the green shore wavelets, his body was bisected for a moment, like a white worm.Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
- We stopped for lunch on a shady bank of the little stream bisecting the canyon.Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- Kabir drove through the main crowded strip that bisected the town of Shadbagh-e-Nau, honking frequently as he needled the car through traffic.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- As the sun was setting Newt saw something he had never seen: a bolt of lightning shot south to north, bisecting the setting sun.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- When they reached the highway that bisected Bogue Banks, the traffic headed for Atlantic Beach evaporated and Travis gradually began to pick up speed.Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
- The little front yard was bisected by a trio of concrete steps and the narrow walkway.Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
- Up ahead, We'll bisect his trail in sixty seconds.Ray Bradbury -- A Sound of Thunder
- He glanced up at the open office doors and the single corridor that bisected the small complex.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- The bridge connects the two pieces of land cut off from one another by the river, while it has the effect of bisecting the stream.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- My eyes have adjusted so I can see that the garden is pretty big, an expanse of grass bisected by brick paths and ringed by flower beds.Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
- A telephone rang at the floor desk fifty feet down the hallway; before the circular desk was a bisecting corridor.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy