What is "sectioned"

Usage examples of "sectioned".

With dismay Chuck studied the plastic, sectioned plate and collection of white mylar bags and packages arrayed before him.

When she thought she had blown enough, she opened first one eye, then the other, bit into the potato with her widely spaced but otherwise perfect front teeth, removed half the potato, cradled the other half, mealy, steaming, and still too hot to chew, in her open mouth, and, sniffing at the smoke and the October air, gazed wide-eyed across the field toward the nearby horizon, sectioned by telegraph poles and the upper third of the brickworks chimney.

The shuttle Mayfly lying next to the Moth had been sectioned off into offices for Ongola, Fulmar, and Nabhi, with a half-dozen comm lines so that Ongola could handle other commitments while on hand at the shuttle.

Sharra exclaimed, pointing to the cold capsule where the sectioned Threads were housed.

She trimmed the kidney fat off them, and then she sectioned a kidney with her knife.

Austen sectioned the other kidney, and found golden streaks in it, too.

A cross etched into the surface sectioned it into triangular quarters.

Folding screens composed of metal frames with dark-colored fabric stretched over them like canvas sectioned the room into smaller spaces.

These ships are being specifically built to be sectioned and rejoinable, to make possible their portage about difficult areas.

The levels themselves were sectioned into compartments up to hundreds of kilometres long and filled with atmospheres of different types and held at different temperatures, while a stunningly complicated and dazzlingly beautiful array of mirrors and mirrorfields situated within the staggered cone of the world's axis provided amounts of sunlight precisely timed, attenuated and where necessary altered in wavelength to mimic the conditions on a hundred different worlds for a hundred different intelligent species.

Leaving the cellar shop in Troyl, which had meanwhile become rather prosperous, to her daughter, she moved to her brother Vincent's place at Bissau, which was Polish territory, took over the management of the farm with its beet and potato fields as in the pre-Koljaiczek era, left her increasingly grace-ridden brother to his dialogues with the Virgin Queen of Poland, and went back to sitting in four skirts beside autumnal potato-top fires, blinking at the horizon, which was still sectioned by telegraph poles.

The people in the inner cities thought they had it bad, but at least the cities were sectioned so the gunships were always around.

Filament-thin, green laser beams sectioned them by threes and fours into what amounted to pens.