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

“The only way around it is for the states to agree how to divvy up the river in an equitable way.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Magouyrk and Sicilia said in an interview they will each lean on the other’s area of specialty as they divvy up responsibilities at the very top.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 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

Next stop is the art room, where we divvy up these forty-two precious names and transfer them onto strips of colored paper, to be formed into loops and added to the chain.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman