How to Use segmented in a Sentence

segmented

adjective
  • Those abdomens were still segmented, not fused as in today's spiders.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The core idea is to make the treatment of data more universal and less segmented.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The head is a compact black bullet from which emerge long thick spikes of hair, two segmented antennae, and clamp-like mandibles.
    — Daisy Alioto, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2020
  • French doors and segmented windows all along the ocean-facing side obscured the beauty outdoors.
    — Carren Jao, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • Bamboos are a perennial grass, identified by a large woody stem that is often round and segmented.
    — Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, AL.com, 31 May 2017
  • The nature of the show, which is modular and segmented, is almost tailor-made to be watched on your phone in the subway.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Cutworms Cutworms are fat, 1-inch-long, gray or black segmented larvae most active at night.
    — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2018
  • Munroe painted the crown molding in the dining room a dark grey, which helps to keep everything from looking ultra segmented.
    — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The poop is often granular-looking, segmented, tube-shaped, and 2 to 3 inches long.
    — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
  • At the last stage of the journey, the Sea Lab boats converge on a tiny cove formed inside one of the gaps in the segmented breakwater.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 2 June 2023
  • Generally, the flavivirus genomes are non-segmented and around 10-11 kbp in length.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • This deep-bodied, segmented soft plastic was designed by bass pro Brett Hite to be the perfect trailer for a vibrating jig.
    — Pete Robbins, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The Porsche is much more segmented, in keeping with the brand's current design themes in the Cayenne and Taycan, among others.
    — Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Gold said Ascension likely could have blocked the weaker Kerberos implementation in its main network and supported it only in a segmented part that tightly restricted the accounts that could use it.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Some areas are literally single hallways wedged between important rooms with nothing to find, while others are multi-segmented wings of a forest that could easily weave together organically if there wasn’t a mandate to play like a PS2 game.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025

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