sundered

Example Sentences

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Sundered by pride, the two men suddenly find themselves united in suffering.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sundered, stricken Nigeria is a far different place from the fast-developing territory that in 1960 won final independence from Britain and thus became Africa's most populous country.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet only for that we have been so long Sundered desire: thence is our life all praise.—

From Emblems Of Love by Abercrombie, Lascelles

And this is the tale which I here set down, as the story was told to me— In excellent Rudyard-Kipling verse—the tale of the Sundered Flea.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 by Various

Sundered yet by thee from us Wait, with wild eyes luminous, All thy winged things that are to be; They flit against thee, Gate of Ivory!

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis