sundering

Example Sentences

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We’ve met the third sundering already, the Mother of All Partitions—that of India and Pakistan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Although the region had been volcanically dormant for centuries, the tectonic sundering happening in the depths meant that the latest eruptions have long been in the works.

From National Geographic • Jul. 24, 2023

Taranti’s sundering from her beloved spirit family and Paranto’s inability to speak to his dead father in waking life are just single moments of personal drama in a vast historical shift.

From Scientific American • Jan. 5, 2023

In response to a dynamic of sundering, he makes an art of adding, combining.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2020

For the first time the evocation of the Founder saddened me, and the campus seemed to rush past me, fast retreating, like the fading of a dream at the sundering of slumber.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison