SUBDIVISION in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SUBDIVISION, such as:

1. But this great set has its subdivisions.
2. His conversions involve few external visible alterations or internal subdivision of rooms.
3. They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks.
4. The subdivisions were simple but ingenious, being composed of stone, sticks, and bark, intermingled.
5. Lava from Kilauea Volcano on Thursday crept toward a largely abandoned subdivision on the Big Island.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBDIVISION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
subdivision
 n.  act of subdividing; an administrative division of larger organization
Classic Sentence:
1  It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
2  The subdivisions were simple but ingenious, being composed of stone, sticks, and bark, intermingled.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
3  They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
4  But this great set has its subdivisions.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Lava from Kilauea Volcano on Thursday crept toward a largely abandoned subdivision on the Big Island.
2  His conversions involve few external visible alterations or internal subdivision of rooms.
3  The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution, includes botany and zoology and all their subdivisions.