partition
Example Sentences
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For sleep she partitioned off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed.
From Literature
As Mr. Mulla tells us, in the 1920s India was “in many ways the epicenter of the Muslim world,” still under British rule, home to a large portion of Islam’s population before partition.
Computer tablet screens glow inside a row of partitioned booths at this new-style Ethiopian police station.
From BBC
The room was completely open without a partition or a dividing wall in sight and set up like a pie, with each slice of the circle housing something different.
From Literature
They are in a building with wooden ceiling beams, in an area that appears to be partitioned off with black curtains, with at least one security agent on the perimeter.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
