7 sentences with 'divided'
Example sentences and phrases with the word divided and other words derived from it.
• « This "region" was divided into three and there was in each of them a barrier protected by three guardian gods who represented specific dangers for each of the "travellers" to the other world. »
• « Then he divided the dough in two parts, stretched and with one of them he covered an oiled pie dish, pricked it with a fork and filled it with slices of sweet ham, smoked bacon cut into sticks and sautéed in its own fat, sliced garlic and very thinly sliced onions; »
• « Like the Greeks before them, the Romans also divided civilisation into a stark binary: on one side was Greco-Roman culture and on the other barbarism, although they sometimes made a grudging exception in the case of Persia. »
• « The idea that the human species was divided into biologically distinct races was not entirely invented in the 19th century, but it became the predominant view and acquired all the characteristics of a "science" in the course of the 19th century. »
• « The administration of the Ur III dynasty divided the empire into three distinct fiscal regions, and its fiscal bureaucracy collected wealth without alienating the conquered peoples as much as Sargon and his descendants had done (despite its relative success, Ur III also eventually collapsed, though this was due to foreign invasion rather than internal revolt). »
• « Egypt was divided between "Upper Egypt", the southern stretch of the Nile valley that depended on the Nile floods for irrigation, and "Lower Egypt", the huge delta region where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. »