How to Use compartmentalize in a Sentence

compartmentalize

verb
  • He compartmentalizes his life by keeping his job and his personal life separate.
  • The company has compartmentalized its services.
  • Boundaries must compartmentalize work to certain times of the day and to days of the week.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • As with many victims of trauma, she’s been able to compartmentalize a lot of it.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
  • But he’s learned to compartmentalize that pain.
    — Sofi Zeman january 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • And if things don't go well, the damage is compartmentalized.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2025
  • At the same time, Williams has been around enough to compartmentalize his emotions.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • What Cindy does best is compartmentalizing her pain and her grief.
    — Candice Frederick, Teen Vogue, 25 Aug. 2018
  • Indie execs will have to compartmentalize to get much done, and the deals might take longer than usual.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The way to do it is to separate and compartmentalize.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Swift knows the show must go on and will compartmentalize her emotions for the next 3½ hours of her marathon concert.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The tree will attempt to compartmentalize the fungus to keep it from spreading.
    — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • De-compartmentalize the rooms with a made-to-measure module.
    — Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Growing up, the Olympian learned to compartmentalize his emotions at a young age.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 9 May 2023
  • On the court, Williams seemed to have compartmentalized her job from the accident.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2017
  • Well, and that gets to the problem is that this president can't compartmentalize.
    — NBC News, 18 June 2017
  • So how does the 35-year-old from Serbia compartmentalize all of that?
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Over time, the constant need to compartmentalize chips away at your spirit and drains your energy.
    — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
  • As a result, this tradition is compartmentalized to regions of the country where the earth is hot enough to cook.
    — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
  • What Scheffler has figured out is how to compartmentalize at the right moments.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • The part that’s hard for me is actually not being in that space and compartmentalizing it.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 June 2026
  • Up until now the two topics have been largely compartmentalized.
    — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • For a while, Lipsitz could compartmentalize the guilt and bury herself in the excitement of her job.
    — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • So most people compartmentalize the news and express their strongest emotions for things closest to home.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Which brings us back to Tryfman’s own ability to compartmentalize her own views from what one expects from a judge.
    — The Editorial Board, Daily News, 19 May 2026
  • Has that ability to compartmentalize your emotions ever not served you well?
    — Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2025
  • One of the blessings and curses one gets from the military is the ability to compartmentalize.
    — Paul De Gelder, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
  • Crossword puzzles are pristine, and space abounds yet is already compartmentalized, with no risk of a letter spilling into the next cell.
    — Cosimo Bizzarri, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Nine days after Doug’s death, Kyle had to try and compartmentalize and take the mat at the Olympic trials.
    — Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Partnering the journey map with departmental swim lanes is an easy way to compartmentalize the value added by each team along the way.
    — Kelly Grover, Forbes, 25 July 2022

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