SEPARATE in a Sentence

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305 example sentences for SEPARATE, such as:

1. The children sleep in separate beds.
2. Maybe both of us will do better separate.
3. Perhaps we should separate now and meet up later.
4. There are separate rooms for senior and junior officers.
5. After twelve years, he decided to separate from the firm.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEPARATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
separate
 v.  keep apart or divide
 a.  being or standing apart; distant
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Maybe both of us will do better separate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  First, it proved indubitably that she and her husband occupied separate rooms, in itself a shocking enough state of affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  For too long the town had been scandalized by the separate bedrooms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
4  He was no less conscious than before of what was said of Lily Bart, but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  To separate from these confused conceptions those most likely to advance the lady on her way, was Lily's obvious duty; but its performance was hampered by rapidly-growing doubts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  She felt so profoundly tired that she thought she must fall asleep at once; but as soon as she had lain down every nerve started once more into separate wakefulness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7  But the town as a separate unit is not the husband of the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  The rooms in the op'ra house sets had separate wing-pieces for sides, which simplified dramaturgy, as the villain could always get out of the hero's way by walking out through the wall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Between the second and third acts she called the company together, and supplicated, "I want to know something, before we have a chance to separate."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  She doubted the convenience and, as a natural sequent, the sanctity of the monogamous and separate home which she had regarded as the basis of all decent life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  They were nearly all Islanders in the Pequod, ISOLATOES too, I call such, not acknowledging the common continent of men, but each ISOLATO living on a separate continent of his own.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
12  On the separate subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing authority.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
14  Any way, I'll have me thirty separate, Turk's-headed life-lines, each three feet long hanging all round to the coffin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
15  The Afro-American citizens of Kentucky, whose intellectual and financial improvement has been phenomenal, have never had a separate car law until now.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
16  The government, the executive and the judi-ciary are supposed to be separate.
17  Thousnds of rivers separate us and thousands of mountains are boundless.
18  After twelve years, he decided to separate from the firm.
19  We each have a separate bedroom but share a communal kitchen.
20  He rescued the company and later spun off its textile division into a separate company.
21  The museums work closely together, but are separate legal entities.
22  They are likely to be well disposed to an offer of a separate peace deal.
23  The two halves of the main branch have grown apart, forming separate trees.
24  Scotland has never lost its identity as a separate nation.
25  Demands for a separate Siberia are confined for now to the lunatic fringe.
26  Perhaps we should separate now and meet up later.
27  I have never suggested that UN forces could physically separate the combatants in the region.
28  There are separate rooms for senior and junior officers.
29  The children sleep in separate beds.
30  He announced a new ministry to deal with Quebec's threat to separate from Canada.