divvy

Example Sentences

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They stuck by each other to chase the one thing they couldn’t divvy up: their dream of skating at the Olympics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Organized into “sanctuary school teams,” the volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—use Google documents to divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Developers rejoice: L.A. is about to divvy up $387 million for affordable housing projects.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

How they decide to divvy up the pie could be a source of further pain for the new administration.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024

As I walked, I started calculating how I was gonna divvy up these last five fish.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis