SUBDIVISION in a Sentence

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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.