How to Use divvy in a Sentence

divvy

verb
Definition of divvynext
  • The money was divvied up into shares for each state based on the size of their voting age populations.
    — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • On Tuesday, Lovullo once again suggested the divvying up of playing time could change.
    — Nick Piecoro, azcentral, 29 May 2018
  • The standard way of divvying up investments — such as the 60% stock/40% bond portfolio — doesn't get this younger set jazzed up.
    — Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 11 May 2018
  • Although Syria’s war began as a purely internal matter, much of the country has now been divvied up among outside powers.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 26 May 2018
  • His nearly two dozen ingredients were waiting upon my arrival, spread across a table in bright, iconic packaging and divvied into small plastic bowls.
    — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • After the election, Iraqi politicians may again go to their sectarian corners and haggle in divvying up key government positions.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2018
  • Also, with Alonzo Highsmith, Eliot Wolf, etc. on board, how will their responsibilities be divvied up?
    — cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • Ministries have long been divvied up among the various political factions in return for their support, resulting cronyism and ineptitude.
    — Fox News, 8 May 2018
  • Mr Abadi, though, has failed to tackle corruption, increase transparency or reform the system by which ministries are divvied up (and plundered) by sect and ethnicity.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • The reporters divvied up the pages and read through the trove.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2019
  • How to divvy up the costs has been a source of acrimony in the past.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • The League has a lot of smaller packages to divvy up in the streaming era.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
  • But a lot has changed since all this water was first divvied up.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But how are these jobs divvied up, and where do bees learn the skills to execute them?
    — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
  • The women divvy up the cash evenly among the 23 players who make the World Cup roster.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 31 July 2023
  • The plan was to divvy up the rest of the Biden agenda into smaller, more palatable chunks.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • Gift them all to one lucky foodie or divvy them up among the heat seekers in your life.
    — Corina Quinn, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Now that a settlement has been reached, more work needs to be on next steps, like how to divvy up the amount.
    — CBS News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • When the meat was divvied up, dogs received scraps as their reward, Wynne says.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
  • When divvied up by region, race and class, the results are sobering.
    — John Myers, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
  • The Roundtable doesn’t offer breakdowns for how to divvy up the $5 billion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • In this messy and drawn-out split, after 47 years together, the divvying up of the stuff is not so easy.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Wittbrodt would then divvy up the kickbacks with Dr. Tyler and Fillmore.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The roster for Week 5 SEC games was thin for the league’s television partners to divvy up.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The Ravens have a young, exciting group, but now coach John Harbaugh has to find a way to divvy up the catches.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The winners, Van Jones and José Andrés, will divvy out the dough to their own favorite causes.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 20 July 2021
  • That’s the night when Dodgers season ticket holders gather to divvy up the 81 home games.
    — Anne Nemer, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
  • Maybe the solution is to offer a cash prize — maybe a million bucks, to be divvied up — to the winning side.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The big picture: Parks officials will use the voting process to help divvy up $5.2 million in parks funding this year.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Looking at how those are divvied up, there were 93 nominations for FX alone.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024

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