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How to use the word SEPARATES in a Sentence? Page #2

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More than adding steps, they should increase the budget of the (regulator) or create a department that separates environment from natural resources.

Ronaldo Recidoro

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There’s room for the likes of Laura Davies and Juli Inkster and a few of the other old girls to show what we can still do because we all hit it well, it’s just the short game separates the top players from the ones that are just struggling a little bit sometimes.

Laura Davies

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Up until now, they peddled this line that there's so much that separates them when the dogs on the streets know that there's actually very little between them, in the event that they were to form a grand coalition, you really are going down the road towards likely merger and that is why you are going to find elements completely against it.

David Farrell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how, let me tell you something -- the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.

Viola Davis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Let me tell you something -- the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.

Viola Davis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It'll be like that until one of us separates ourselves a little bit, at the end of the day, it's just about playing and playing well. I don't know any other way we could determine the best player in the world.

Rory McIlroy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

President Obama has hoped that being more open to China would make them a more responsible nation. It has not worked. We can no longer succumb to the illusion that more dialogue with China's current rulers will narrow the gap in values and interests that separates us, our nominee must have a plan to correct U.S.-China relations.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What separates well vodka from premium vodka is oil and sugar.

Brian Facquet of Prohibition Distilling

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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10 years ago

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardner

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10 years ago

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Edith Hamilton

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10 years ago

The only thing that separates success from failure is one last attempt. Try one more time and you will get lucky.

Apoorve Dubey

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11 years ago

You are gifted with unique abilities which make you rare, special, something that separates you from everyone else in the world.

Oscar Bonga Nomvete

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13 years ago

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

Voltaire

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13 years ago

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Eva Pern

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14 years ago

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

James Grover Thurber

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14 years ago

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn S. Yalow

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14 years ago

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco

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14 years ago

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardner

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14 years ago

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

Aldous Huxley

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14 years ago

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    A caddie
    B monish
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