How to Use dividing line in a Sentence

dividing line

noun
  • So the dividing line was more between the adults and the kids.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
  • How much falls and where will depend on the storm’s path and where the rain/snow dividing line ends up.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • As a dividing line in sports, testosterone makes a certain amount of sense.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
  • What is the dividing line, the thing that makes a work unacceptable?
    — Jamieson Webster, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left.
    — Jacob Bogage, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • There’s no clear dividing line between too much information and not enough.
    — B. “toastie” Oaster, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Often the dividing line between major and routine came down to a last-minute effort by the crew or rescue teams.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The mission offered a clear dividing line between success and failure.
    — Alden Woods, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2024
  • Once PfP was abandoned, a new dividing line became inevitable.
    — M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
  • As if someone had drawn a dividing line between them, the trees to the left are dead — killed by flooding a few years prior — while the others are alive.
    — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • All of that has shifted so much, and yet the paradigm of this dividing line between work and our personal lives has not shifted.
    — Polina Pompliano, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The new find could help better define the mass dividing line between large planets and small brown dwarfs, as well as that between large brown dwarfs and small stars.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 June 2025
  • That dividing line is tough to pinpoint in real time, but the Fed uses models based on past data to ballpark it.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • If there were only two personalities in the world, these two films would represent the dividing line.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 24 July 2023
  • In the Great Lakes State, access to water marks a dividing line between the haves and the have-nots.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Most short bursts lasted less than a second, while many long bursts went on for a minute or longer (the dividing line between the two flavors comes at around two seconds).
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Today, that frontier with the European Union is a dividing line between war and peace.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
  • The rules above also vary depending on whether the business is selling goods or services, and the dividing line between the two is not always clear.
    — Robert Marchant, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • Dragon’s high speed was rapidly carrying the spacecraft into orbital night, a great shadowy dividing line draped across the globe.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
  • His career falls loosely into two halves, with WWII the dividing line.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 May 2023
  • The critical dividing line in these disputes remained between those parties in the vital center and those on the extremes.
    — Peter Trubowitz, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2023
  • These interludes seem to mark the shaky dividing line between terror and solace, as George tirelessly makes his way back to his mother.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In this state, water is everything, especially in summer, and access to it creates a dividing line of sorts between the haves and the have nots.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The Lone Star State ranks 14th nationally for its dividing line.
    — Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
  • This mighty, sprawling river serves as a dividing line between Ukrainian forces and Russian occupiers, who have destroyed bridges that could be used to cross it.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • On one side of the dividing line, there are expensive suits and Champagne, a few metres away, there are, yes, plenty of young lads in suits, but also baseball caps, hoodies and see-through ponchos.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • But all that misses the real point for what could become a new dividing line between iPhone and Android, between Apple and Samsung.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The weightlessness on the nine-minute flight to the Karman line, considered the dividing line between Earth’s atmosphere and space, lasted only four minutes.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Even now, a major north-south street, Troost Avenue, is seen as a dividing line, with more Black people living to the east and more white people to the west, including downtown.
    — Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Israel’s military, which has struck targets on both sides of the ceasefire’s dividing line, said its attacks since October have been responses to violations of the agreement.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026

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