How to Use separate out in a Sentence

separate out

phrasal verb
Definition of separate outnext
  • Announcing the group draw first, then the schedule is a smart way to separate out these games from the rest.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Lastly, have a few hair ties or clips on hand to separate out sections, as well as a brush.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 June 2023
  • The ladies worked on separating out the various, um, things in the pellets.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2010
  • That would entail flying a harvester to the moon, which would scoop up the regolith, then its processor would separate out the Helium-3.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Some travelers use packing cubes as a way to separate out types of clothing — shirts, pants, socks, etc.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Netflix isn’t separating out its kids shows from adult series in that way.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2023
  • There are two internal shoe pockets to separate out a pair of heels inside the main compartment.
    — Molly Harris, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2023
  • Pipelines carry this waste to a machine that separates out the solid dung into two-story-high piles.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • During this procedure, a client’s blood is drawn and the components of plasma and cells are separated out.
    — Korin Miller, Health, 4 May 2024
  • Stay on top of things and separate out delicate materials before throwing the bed spread in the dryer.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2023
  • An absorbent would then separate out the lithium before the lithium-free water would be pumped back underground.
    — Associated Press, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In simple terms: the cathode is separated out from the battery cell, regenerated in a chemical process and then placed back in a cell.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Gel electrophoresis uses an electrical field to separate out the molecules of DNA and the florescent stain in the gel allows the results to be viewed under a black light.
    — Kendra MacK, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • How much of the architecture can be separated out onto chiplets?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2023
  • The gases flow over a special material that separates out the carbon dioxide.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 15 May 2023
  • The letter also said that Trump’s departure from the White House was rushed and that there was not sufficient opportunity to separate out papers that should not have been kept.
    — Jacqueline Alemany, Spencer S. Hsu, Perry Stein, Devlin Barrett and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
  • During that time, most of the minerals are separated out, so the ice has extremely low levels of hardness and few, if any, impurities.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2024
  • To start off a rat brain robot, embryonic neurons are separated out and allowed to grow on an electrode array.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2010
  • Researchers separated out a group of patients who took their medication for at least a full 120 days, to make sure the difference couldn’t be chalked up to one group being more adherent than the other.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 22 May 2024
  • Over time, majorities in both societies may recognize that the only way to secure the future for their children is to separate out of respect rather than engage out of hatred.
    — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Below, find dozens of the best Cyber Monday deals on Amazon, separated out by category, to shop before the holiday sales wind down.
    — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Nov. 2023
  • New hires were separated out into different tiers of employment, made to take home worse benefits and drastically less pay for the same work.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But new supplies have become available; mines opened in Indonesia, and other miners started separating out what was left in tailings piles.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
  • For one, breaking a chemical bond is a fundamental process in nature where electrons that are shared between two atoms separate out into unbound atoms.
    — Aaron W. Harrison, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The negotiation is over the next two years after any president leaves office, they're supposed to go through all of the records and they're supposed to separate out what is personal, what is presidential.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 4 June 2023
  • Reiss worries that Ladapo’s new idea, of choosing not to separate out unvaccinated kids during a school outbreak, could end up spreading to other jurisdictions.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2024
  • National accounts do not, for example, separate out R & D, design, sales and marketing, and back-office services from the physical production of goods.
    — Susan Lund, James Manyika, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
  • Instead of trying to count each microplastic particle, the researchers were able to quantify the total amount of plastic by dissolving all the biological tissue and separating out the solids.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 22 May 2024
  • Researchers at the company collected the patient’s B cells using a machine that removes blood, separates out a particular component, then returns the rest to circulation.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Payments on Treasuries are handled over Fedwire, a different payments system than the one that handles government benefits and payments to contractors, so those may be easier to separate out.
    — Viktoria Dendrinou, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2023

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