Dividing has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | "And besides," Dima made sure to add, taking out his calculator and dividing 0.99 by 3,000,000, before multiplying by 100. "You do realize that you would only lose 0.0033%, right?" | |
| 2. | If you see language as a living being, formed by the entity of all speakers, dividing strictly into "right" and "wrong" makes little sense. | |
| 3. | If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? | |
| 4. | The result of dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter is equal to pi. | |
| 5. | If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. | |
| 6. | To solve the problem of Palestine it would be necessary for the Palestinians to abandon the so-called Palestinian Authority and unite around a common political front to defend the rights of all Palestinians, including the refugees and their descendants who want to return to Palestine. It would also be necessary for them to definitively abandon the so-called "two-state solution," which in my opinion is very similar to the racist solution to South Africa that consisted of dividing South Africa into territories for white people and into territories supposedly "autonomous" or "independent" for the native peoples. | |
| 7. | Whenever the United States do not succeed in invading, annihilating, dividing or controlling a country, they feel humiliated. | |
| 8. | The manager was accused by many of dividing the club. | |
| 9. | None of the Germanic tribes, who, dividing among themselves the provinces of the Caesarian empire, had tried to dress their barbaric nakedness in the torn but splendid garments of Roman civilization, had known like the Goths how to gather these fragments of purple and gold, to compose themselves in the example of civilized people. | |
| 10. | It is customary to begin the teaching of grammar by dividing words into certain classes, generally called "parts of speech" — substantives, adjectives, verbs, etc. — and by giving definitions of these classes. |