How to Use divvy in a Sentence

divvy

verb
  • The reporters divvied up the pages and read through the trove.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2019
  • That's how most of these head coach contracts are divvied up.
    — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 6 June 2017
  • But a lot has changed since all this water was first divvied up.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The work is divvied up based on the different ends of the field.
    — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Paige said he hasn’t been told how his time will be divvied up between the two teams.
    — Brendan Marks, charlotteobserver, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Better yet, divvy up the shopping and prep work with your guests.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Gift them all to one lucky foodie or divvy them up among the heat seekers in your life.
    — Lia Picard, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But how are these jobs divvied up, and where do bees learn the skills to execute them?
    — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
  • How to divvy up the costs has been a source of acrimony in the past.
    — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 5 July 2022
  • Gangs have divvied up the tracks and the territories around it.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • When divvied up by region, race and class, the results are sobering.
    — John Myers, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
  • Just don't bring the kids; divvy is 21 and over or 16 and over with an adult.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
  • There are a number of creative ways to divvy this up that have nothing to do with luck.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • There are no terms to be agreed on, no spheres of influence to be divvied between them.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 June 2024
  • When the meat was divvied up, dogs received scraps as their reward, Wynne says.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • How is a normal person supposed to divvy up cash between all of these?
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
  • This one is about two brothers who decide to divvy up the family dairy farm.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Humans and animals alike must decide how to divvy up the day.
    — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 28 June 2018
  • The only thing that changes is how that tax is divvied up among property owners.
    — Randy Tucker, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2017
  • The League has a lot of smaller packages to divvy up in the streaming era.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
  • The debate over how best to divvy up money for Illinois schools has raged for decades.
    — Rick Pearson, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • After all, the family does not want to see their monies divvied up in the event of a divorce.
    — Christine Fletcher, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Lay the shrimp atop a bed of ice on your biggest platter, or divvy them up across coupe glasses and spoon in some dip.
    — Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The plan was to divvy up the rest of the Biden agenda into smaller, more palatable chunks.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • 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 seven basin states are split into two factions that have not agreed on how to divvy up cuts to water supplies in dry years.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The Roundtable doesn’t offer breakdowns for how to divvy up the $5 billion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • How the Patriots’ backfield is divvied up will be of note Sunday.
    — Jess Bryant, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025

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