How to Use segment in a Sentence

segment

1 of 2 noun
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  • I think I lost one segment of this model kit.
  • The railroad track is divided into segments.
  • The department said that the piers for the segment of the bridge over the river are on land.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Each person on the show seemed transformed by the end of their segment.
    — Stephen Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The roundtable segment aired after the Season 11 finale of the show.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The sales decline was mainly in the pork and chicken segments, Tyson said.
    — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Yes, the long segments made the show drag a tiny bit, but it was clearly built into the running time.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Explore See latest videos, charts and news Watch the full segment here.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The evening news would do whole segments about its swimsuit issue.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Six of the primary mirror segments were tucked back behind the rest of the mirrors for launch.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
  • One of Sorensen’s key roles has been to lead a weekly segment emphasizing turnovers, to get the ball.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The Kia Seltos has shined in this spot, with sales up 30 percent year over year and a buying cohort that's among the youngest in the segment.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
  • The slide there took out two 86-foot-long segments of a pedestrian bridge on the San Clemente Beach Trail that runs north and south parallel to the tracks.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Here’s Moe’s woe: The gist of the segment is the reporter interviewing her son for his reactions, which provide the heart of the piece.
    — WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • There are two sections of the trail in Vermont, separated by a segment of trail in New York state.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Whoosh was more than $1 billion over budget, and four years late, on its first $7.2 billion segment.
    — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
  • That’s not to say Gollum has no sense of challenge or the parkour segments are badly designed.
    — Josh Broadwell, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • Then there was Dawn, the two-door convertible debuted in 2016, which drew a larger segment of women to the fold.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That and more in this week’s listener question segment.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
  • On Late Night, Seth Meyers did an entire segment on the strike ending with a short address to the audience.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Soon after filming the segment, Wahlberg asked McCarthy out.
    — Jamie Ballard, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • But the segments of the Republican party that are not in Trump’s thrall may yet be persuadable.
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, the sector was the only segment of the S&P 500 to end with gains after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent oil prices surging.
    — WSJ, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But one segment left him completely in shock, and his reaction had fans in stitches over it.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 19 July 2023
  • But dynamic sophistication isn't the be-all and end-all of cars in this segment.
    — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Flay then breaks out into a monologue about what the transitions between segments might look like.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In his remarks, Macron suggested that the segment might have been edited in a misleading way.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Speed limits can be reassessed when changes are made to the roadway design and that’s what has happened with this segment of Coast Highway.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Either way, the result is that large segments of the population in the besieged Strip struggle daily to sustain themselves.
    — Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Scoops of the zesty, creamy marinated feta are arranged with the roasted tomatoes and supremed grapefruit segments, the tangy cheese and spicy fruit juices melding into an addictive dressing.
    — Betty Hallock, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024
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segment

2 of 2 verb
  • Market researchers have segmented the population into different age groups.
  • To segment an orange, slice off the bottom and the top of the fruit.
    — Becky Krystal, charlotteobserver, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The cruises are segmented according to the age of the child.
    — Ellen Uzelac, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • One way to make your emails more enticing to your subscribers is to segment your email list.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The closet is segmented into two racks—suits and bondage.
    — Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
  • But the toll plan is segmented, which means the toll would be priced at a lower cost for taking shorter trips along the project route.
    — John Sharp | Jsharp@al.com, al.com, 17 July 2019
  • Together the dots and the line segments between them form a polygonal curve.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2019
  • The front seats are segmented and offset by bright gold seatbelts.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2018
  • To make, segment the center of a paper plate into six sections; write prompts in each.
    — Carly Breit, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Working hours have now been lowered across the board and further segmented by age group.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
  • One of her findings was that listeners segment a speech stream based on the cadence of their first language.
    — Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • It's been one scripted step forward, a couple of Muslim-bashing Fox News segments back.
    — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
  • The route segments through Sodo and Rainier Valley cross intersections at the surface.
    — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Field segmented into areas by age/grade to ensure every child has a chance to collect eggs.
    — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • And for dessert: oranges, peeled and segmented and served with yogurt for dipping or cold and candied, after the teachings of Gabrielle Hamilton.
    — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The walkable downtown area is segmented into just a few main streets that are jam-packed with clothing boutiques, home stores, cozy cafés, and more.
    — al, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Some families segment the day with a group activity in the morning, free time in the afternoon and then a group dinner.
    — Julie Weed, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • When the implication of this sinks in, the rest of the world may well stop segmenting Nigerians and simply lose trust in them collectively.
    — David Hundeyin, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Epshteyn produces as many as nine conservative, pro-Trump segments a week.
    — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The main lounge is segmented with cozy nooks, television viewing areas, swing chairs and a beverage bar.
    — Pamela Dittmer McKuen, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • For example, in the past, hospitals would segment their medical device network to isolate it from the rest of the systems that need access to it.
    — James Carder, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Where the population was segmented into smaller groups, the margin jumps to 5.2%.
    — Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Understand the bands that segment your customers and build value propositions that will move customers to higher bands.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • One of the Obamacare requirements the amendment kept on the books, though, was the single risk pool rule, which barred insurers from segmenting sick and healthy pools when setting premiums.
    — Jim Newell, Slate Magazine, 28 July 2017
  • Bobcat scat tends to be segmented, 3 to 5 inches long, tubular, and varying in diameter from ½ to 1 inch.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The reality is consumers don’t bifurcate or segment their world like that.
    — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
  • Then, a segmenting software cut the image into pieces and threw the pieces containing rocks, boulders, and so on into a series of classifiers.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • There is a handy tool on the analytics site run by Bart Torvik that allows readers to segment the college basketball season by date.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Sternum suggests avoiding the exposure of any of these units to the wider Internet, segmenting it into a subnet away from sensitive devices, if possible.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023
  • After years of pressure to increase data sharing in the health care system, new efforts would require software makers to ensure that health care providers can easily segment and protect specific information from disclosure when requested by patients.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023

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