How to Use schism in a Sentence

schism

noun
  • The church was divided by schism.
  • Did all roads have to lead to schism and war?
    — Kornel Chang september 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But over the past decade or so, major schisms have emerged.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Could his new wife have had something to do with this schism?
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • When the girls were in their early teens, the church had a schism.
    — ELLE, 11 Aug. 2022
  • There does not appear to be an end in sight to golf's great schism.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The two became emblems of a schism.
    — Gaby Del Valle, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • On both sides of the schism, worries have been voiced about war-readiness.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 21 July 2023
  • The mayoral campaign itself seemed on the brink of racial schism.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Protests, church trials, talk of schism and calls for unity ensued.
    — Holly Meyer, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2020
  • No matter which side emerges triumphant from the meeting next week, a schism looms.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2021
  • This is not the first time that there has been a schism among students at Hillel.
    — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • To hear the coach and quarterback tell it, though, there is no great schism in the locker room.
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025
  • This obsession leads to a massive schism between him and the rest of his crew.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 16 June 2022
  • To be sure, Democrats are facing an identity schism of their own.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a schism in the world of startups and venture capital right now.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • There are signs that the protest issue is forcing a schism in the Olympic movement.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The intensity and pain of that schism eclipsed my greatest fears.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Nowhere is the schism between the highs and the lows of fashion more evident than in menswear.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 27 June 2018
  • What is going on there, and the image that this country has outside, is a huge schism.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017
  • Methodist leaders on both sides say the controversy could bring about a schism in the church.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The women’s pushback also lays bare schisms in Iran that had been veiled for decades.
    — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2023
  • When the coders can’t get along, a group of them will split off and create a new network, a schism known as a hard fork.
    — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But these three appear to suffer no internal schism.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This sets up a schism possibly between the federal and the state courts.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 15 June 2022
  • Barbier points to a schism between auteur films.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But while that was the tipping point, Wilson says a schism was already in the offing.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 19 June 2017
  • The union balked and walked, leading to a messy strike that created a major schism within the firm.
    — Washington Post, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The fallout and the aftermath The schism cost both men millions.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • When there is a schism in trade relations, the deficit country [is] at an advantage.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025

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