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Definition

cut in half or cut in two

bisect a line

The region is bisected by a four-lane highway.
As Strong tried to get the nearly bisected plane home, the tail flapped in the wind, and a huge crack crept up the fuselage.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

bisected = cut in half

Watanabe stepped off a train in Kobe, walked through the city, and stopped before a house with a garden bisected by a stone path.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

bisected = divided in two

Made of two layers of canvas coated in rubber and divided into two air pockets bisected by a bulkhead, each was in good condition.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

bisected = divided in two

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

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