How to Use division in a Sentence

division

noun
  • After learning multiplication, the students were taught division.
  • The Texas Rangers have a losing record and are third in their division.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • The Chiefs' division round game kicks off at 4:30 pm ET.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 14 Jan. 2025
  • There are more people at odds and more division in the city.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Despite that, the Dodgers rolled through a division series with a three-game sweep of the San Diego Padres.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • As a result of their division win and their record, the Yankees had a bye for the Wild Card round.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Here is a breakdown of the winners in each boys division.
    — Alex Suarez, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The home team went quietly in the seventh, then in the eighth and again in the ninth, spoiling a chance to draw even with the Reds for first place in the division.
    — Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2023
  • No word yet on if the Vikings are petitioning to stay in the division for good.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
  • The fine folks at the FBI’s crime division say teens lost 2,500% more money to scams over a recent five-year stretch.
    — Kim Komando, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Buzzfeed will lay off 15% of its staff and shut down its news division.
    — Amber Burton, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Slam won the WFA title in 2009, but dropped to the league’s second division two seasons later.
    — Kat Cornetta, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • The 16-team playoff would feature the division winners and wild cards.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Kimmel then asked what group Trump would be in since there are racial divisions in prison.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • All the details on that are here, and read Nellie’s cool look back at the division’s storied life here.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This is the fourth time in just over two years that the two are locking horns in a battle for the flyweight division title.
    — al, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Through its shoes division, the league has served about 2,000 IPS and township students.
    — Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Dec. 2022
  • So, the Eagles are anything but certain to win the division.
    — Marcus Hayes, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The night the Dodgers clinched the division on Sept. 16, Kershaw started with four scoreless innings.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The stark divisions in the country often played out just feet apart at Michigan precincts.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In his third season with them, the Chargers won their first division title in more than a decade.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • As mentioned above, the NFC South seems to be the division that nobody really wants to win.
    — Catena Media, oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
  • In the second division, each district is equal: blue always wins by six votes out of 10.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2022
  • One more win clinches the division, a first-round bye and home-field advantage.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
  • One more win clinches the NFC East division, a first-round bye and home-field advantage.
    — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The main event will tell us a lot about the immediate future of the UFC’s middleweight division.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • If the Bengals lost to the Bills on Monday, then their season finale would have been for the division title.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In a prime time matchup and division rivalry game, that doesn’t seem likely given the stakes.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Hence, the formation of the Mercedes team’s Applied Science division.
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2025
  • There are two parallel divisions of 12 teams at that level but only one of the 24 teams went up each season, with the winners of the south and north sections facing each other in a winner-takes-all play-off.
    — Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025

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