divvy up

Example Sentences

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It could rewrite the rules that divvy up the ping-pong balls for the draft lottery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Organized into “sanctuary school teams,” the volunteers—many of them moms already involved at their schools—use Google documents to divvy up tasks, such as delivering groceries to immigrant families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

The ports have many ways to divvy up their numbers, to claim to be first and biggest and most.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025

Whatever money is left over after the blazes Lewis plans to put toward scholarships for formerly incarcerated firefighters or divvy up and donate to individual prisoners’ commissary accounts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

Prior to coming to sabotage school, Dasch was always "hungry like the dickens," and he made sure to carefully divvy up his bread ration and carry it with him.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple