sundered

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Of Liberty: but as he strove To clutch that idol, treachery Sundered him from the thing he loved.

From Dubliners by Joyce, James

Parted, though by narrowest of divisions, Clasp he might not, only might implore, Sundered yet by bitterest of derisions, Son, and mother from the son she bore— Here?

From Studies in Song by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

All too far are then and now Sundered: none may be as thou.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles