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  • verb Present participle of section.

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Examples

  • There’s no point in sectioning someone if there’s no bed.

    Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • While the art dispayed in this picture is not quite our taste, we do love the idea of sectioning off the space with artwork.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2008

  • A minor problem, but maybe some more categories rather than just “Movie News” such as sectioning further: Comic Adaptations, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Comedy Foreign, etc.

    New writers, change of style, and 20 answers we need from you! | Obsessed With Film 2007

  • Proposed changes to the Act include easier 'sectioning' laws.

    Comments for Damn Interesting Lyzbeth 2010

  • · This release deepens "sectioning" support down to 7 levels.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • My sister visited me here in Portland last weekend and lets just say it looked like the patriarchy threw-up all over my bathroom in the form of hot rollers, make-up, big "sectioning" hairbrushes and blow dryers and other smelly lotions and potions.

    I Blame The Patriarchy 2008

  • He does not remove my sectioning, telling me that it is necessary to keep tabs on my progress in the hospital.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • He blamed her for sectioning him in 2003, though it was a joint decision, and when he was at his most psychotic, he would refuse to talk to her or would shout at her.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • He was entitled legally to appeal against his sectioning before a mental health review tribunal, established to prevent people from being unfairly incarcerated or persecuted.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • I had never heard of William Marsden (1754-1836), who as secretary of the British Admiralty devised the ocean-sectioning "Marsden squares" that Lloyd's has used ever since to chart the location of shipwrecks.

    When History Rides the Waves John Steele Gordon 2010

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