Sample sentences for PARTITION

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Definition

something that divides space, the act of dividing into parts, or a divided part

a movable partition can divide the ballroom into two smaller rooms

partition a room off
partition the country along ethnic lines
the left partition is not as large as the right partition
On the other side of a partition is a family with three children.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

partition = a structure (less substantial than a wall) that divides a room

Inside, it was partitioned into a kitchen and an eating room.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

partitioned = divided

There were men—the rangers—crouching down behind the low partition.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
The rats were fighting; they were trying to get at each other through the partition.
George Orwell -- 1984
The house inhabited by these emigrants has no internal partition or loft.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
The oak partition shook with the concussion, and the place was filled with grey smoke.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Chapter XVIII In a partitioned-off section of a saloon sat a man with a half dozen women, gleefully laughing, hovering about him.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Glass reached the clear partition just as it locked into the floor, slamming her hands against it.
Kass Morgan -- The 100
Don Quixote rose betimes, and bade adieu to his hosts by knocking at the partition of the other room.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
He got up and approached the partition very gently, trying to look through.
Henry James -- The American
DEMETRIUS It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
Kathy's eyes locked on to the sliding wooden partition that separated this teller from the others.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
He maddened me particularly when he read aloud the psalms to himself behind his partition.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
They crave partition of our lost king's land and wealth.
Homer -- The Odyssey
But there w as a partition wall blocking off the stairs and the elevator from the rest of the room.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
The Palestine issue was being debated now by the United Nations, and the Partition Plan would soon be voted upon.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen

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