How to Use bisect in a Sentence

bisect

verb
  • Draw a line that bisects the angle.
  • The city is bisected by the highway.
  • An equinox occurs when the sun lines up so that the equator bisects it.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2019
  • On one side, cars speed past on the two-lane road that bisects the southern part of the state.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Once inside, the space is bisected again by rough chain-link fence.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Below, the desert floor was bisected by the thin black line of the border wall.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The fault lines vary in width and don’t always bisect the entire figure.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The building’s front is bisected by a floor-to-ceiling pinewood door.
    — Suleman Anaya, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • The edge of the circle of light cast by his desk lamp bisected Leif across his pale chest.
    — Caleb Crain, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • The new plant is on the east side of the railroad tracks that bisect the property from north to south.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • How can a decade be intact when it was bisected by his campaign and election?
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Three lots are on the opposite side of a wetland area, bisected by a stream.
    — David Anderson, The Aegis, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Tom Rivera grew up two blocks away in a barrio on the south side of the railroad tracks that bisect the city.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2022
  • As rebel and former regime forces bisected regions and cities, people left their homes.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The project, which is bisected by the trolley line, will feature a downtown-style main street.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024
  • At two points these stairs bisect low stone walls that are an attractive part of the landscaping of the front yard.
    — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2024
  • From a rear wooden deck large enough to function as an outdoor kitchen, a stone path bisects the sprawling lawn.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2023
  • The main floor space was bisected by a dividing wall, leaving part of the space empty.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The idea is to reunite the two areas of greenery bisected by Wilshire.
    — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 10 July 2024
  • The thing is, most tourists only drive through the 384 miles of scenic asphalt that bisect the park’s wilds.
    — Matt Bell, AFAR Media, 19 May 2026
  • Two carbon-fiber plates bisect the carbon-fiber tube in a T formation.
    — Adrienne So, Wired, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The main difficulty lies in a creek that bisects the fairway and continues to the right of the green.
    — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
  • The dog is ahead and has stopped by the tree that bisects the diagonal; the girl with the bright red coat who seems to be paused behind him.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Griffiths said the plan is to build a low wall to bisect the room, creating not only a bar area but a three-person chef’s counter.
    — Michael Klein, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
  • The carvings bisect the center of the face, continuing up the forehead and all the way around to the back of the skull.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 28 June 2017
  • The ridge bisects two steep, icy cliffs — the Willis and the Liberty walls — on the mountain’s north side.
    — Asia Fields, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2019
  • The two leaders smiled and shook hands across a concrete slab that marks the border bisecting Panmunjom.
    — David E. Sanger and Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Two large mounds bisect the fairway 300 yards from the tee, creating a blind second shot over the hill.
    — Michael Whitmer, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • Mud Gully Stream, which bisects the two sites, was full and flowing with muddy water.
    — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.
    — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025

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