Separate

//ˈsɛp.(ə.)ɹət//

"Separate" in a Sentence (24 examples)

It is no use trying to separate the sheep from the goats while in a state of madness.

We'd like separate checks.

We cannot separate the sheep from the goats by appearance.

Waiter, give us separate checks, please.

No one can separate them.

As more time passed, these Creoles became separate languages: Spanish, French, Italian, etc.

Certainly there is nothing that will separate people more, and nothing so easy to slip into.

This is important enough for separate treatment.

You cannot separate the milk from the coffee once you put it in.

Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split.

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Separate the articles from the headings.

Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.

The mesosphere may be described as the earth's intermediate or middle atmosphere, which separates the thermosphere above from the ozonosphere (or stratosphere) below, both of which are responsible for absorption of most of the ultraviolet part of the solar radiation and preventing it from reaching the earth's surface.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

From the fine gold I separate the allay [alloy].

There must be some deep-rooted anti-social principle in every man's nature, so dearly does he love aught that separates him from his kind; or is it but one of the many shapes taken by that mental kaleidoscope, vanity, the varying and the glittering, the desire of distinction, sinking into that of notice?

If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.

Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.

I try to keep my personal life separate from work.

French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.

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