How to Use divisible in a Sentence

divisible

adjective
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  • But if 3n + 1 is not divisible by 4, then is odd, and the orbit will rise.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
  • In that book, Derek’s mind hums with ideas about landscape, about the body, and how each is not divisible from the other.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Our living — as Black and not yet free — was not divisible from the terror of the white world and the effects those constraints had on us.
    — Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • To use the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find, say, all the primes up to 100, start with the number two, and cross out any higher number on the list that is divisible by two.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 May 2013
  • If this distance is divisible by 8 inches—the finished width of a piece of siding—you're in luck.
    — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2021
  • If this distance is divisible by 8 inches—the finished width of a piece of siding—you’re in luck.
    — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • There are tricks to quickly know if, say, some huge number is divisible by 9 or 11.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
  • If 3n + 1 is also divisible by 4, then is also even, and the orbit will fall.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The fact that 97 is a prime number—divisible only by 1 or itself—is supposed to make the system more secure.
    — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • So every year that is exactly divisible by 4 is a leap year, in which a 29th day is added to February.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • This can be relatively straightforward when the refresh rate is divisible by the frame rate, as the TV can show multiples of the same frame.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • To be prime, a number needs to avoid being divisible by any whole number smaller than itself (save the number 1).
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2018
  • But, if the year is also evenly divisible by 400, it is then designated a leap year.
    — NBC News, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The numbers are all divisible by 3 and each number is the square of the previous number, Based on the numbers Hector offers, those rules are correct.
    — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2017
  • That the notion of the endlessly divisible in the world was attended by certain problems.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The petro will be divisible into 100 million units and the minimum exchange unit will be called the mene, according to the draft proposal.
    — Patricia Laya, Bloomberg.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Even numbers get a very low score, odd numbers divisible by 3 are only slightly higher, and so on.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2013
  • Numbers ending in 5 can't be prime, and there are tricks for seeing if a number is divisible by 3, 7, 0r other small factors.
    — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2013
  • Mortgages are another form of debt that are divisible in a divorce.
    — Dallas News, 13 May 2021
  • There's a bit of math in figuring out when leap years fall under the Gregorian calendar: The year must be divisible by four.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 1 Jan. 2024
  • To fix this small discrepancy, century years which are not divisible by 400 are not leap years.
    — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
  • But there’s an exception to that: The centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 leap years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Each hour in turn is divisible by 60 arcminutes and each arcminute in turn by 60 arcseconds.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The turn of the 20th century was a heady time for physics: In the span of just over a decade, the world was introduced to quantum physics, special relativity and the electron — the first evidence that atoms had divisible parts.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Prime numbers, whole numbers that are greater than 1 and only divisible by 1 and themselves (such as 2 and 7), also fascinate her.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
  • To refine our calendar even further, all years evenly divisible by 400 are not leap years.
    — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • It is also stipulated that if a year ends in double zeros, it must be divisible by 400 in order to qualify as a run year.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Now, a leap year occurs in every year that is divisible by four, but only in century years that are evenly divided by 400.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The building owner is marketing the site as divisible, meaning more than one business may end up occupying the space.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The occupiable space was T-shaped, easily divisible into a sleeping area and a living area, and the kitchen was separate.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2018

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