Sentence examples for were being split from inspiring English sources

Never before has it sounded as menacing as here, as if continents were being split asunder.

Another student disagreed, pointing to the way the sinners who had split with the Catholic Church were being split open with swords.

Shakespeare, he says, "has only one split infinitive in his entire body of work," but by the end of the 18th century infinitives were being split right and left, by the learned as well as the common folk.

Rather than instructing the kettledrums to play through the passage with continuous rolling thunder, as other conductors do (including Furtwängler and Herbert von Karajan), he had the timpani peak at each of the three crescendos in the passage — releasing, all three times, an almost frightening charge of energy, as if the atom were being split again and again.

The organisation said there were five detention centres in St Petersburg and the detainees were being split between them.

In 2012, Hubble picked up emissions from hydrogen and oxygen atoms above Europa's southern hemisphere, as if water molecules were being split apart by electrons whirring through Jupiter's extended magnetic fields.

The country is being split into loyalists and traitors.

What were thought to be single diseases are being split into separate ailments.

Because of the number of questions, his answers are being split into several parts.

Even within publishing houses, new-adult authors are being split between children's and adult divisions.

The cost of the settlement itself is being split between Del Monte and Barclays.