How to Use split screen in a Sentence

split screen

noun
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  • Kayyem: The first part of 2021 is going to be a split screen — the horror and the hope.
    — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • At one point, a split screen put both games in the picture.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The split screen dramas on the ground and in the air help keep the story moving.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 12 May 2021
  • On a split screen, Stefani read the note Juszczyk wrote to her on top.
    — Jackie Fields, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
  • On the other side of the split screen, the dog sauntered into the shot and sat on Jen’s legs.
    — Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • Biden asked after a short clip of Trump's plays on a split screen.
    — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 21 May 2024
  • The provocations of the split screen remind us of this.
    — Laurence Scott, Wired, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Is the Trump part of this split screen likely to sway voters?
    — Sara Ganim, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • For much of the debate, the candidates let the split screen do the talking for them.
    — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Jones wasn't there, but live video from the court played on a split screen on his Infowars show.
    — CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • And what people saw — and this was predictable — was a split screen.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 28 June 2024
  • The debate was broadcast in split screen, which did not show this.
    — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • On a split screen, viewers could see what Banger saw from the cockpit.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Belkin has a weakness for split screens and rapid-fire editing.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • There’s also a Desk View which allows for a split screen mode.
    — José Adorno, BGR, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The lights in the New York studio cut out during a split screen with the main studio in Atlanta.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Often, a split screen shows non-live footage of looting.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 June 2020
  • Viewers will see a Zoom-like split screen of the speakers, along with a comment feed at the bottom.
    — Fortune, 1 Mar. 2021
  • So, for an answer, there’s a cut to a split screen of Johnson and Statham in their respective beds.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Your Place or Mine feels fresh and unique with its use of split screen — and the fact that the two romantic leads spend very little time in the same room.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • What happens when there’s a split screen between the action on the campaign trial and in the courtroom?
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The election-night split screen underscored the fine line that Fox News’s anchors and opinion hosts have walked in the past 24 hours.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
  • President Bush was saying something, and the split screen showed Al Gore sigh and shake his head.
    — Melissa Rohlin, Esquire, 26 Sep. 2016
  • The split screen between them captured every emotion along the way so that no raw word or wet tear was missed.
    — Justin Kirkland, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The split screen epitomized her yearlong high-wire act.
    — Vivienne Walt, Time, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The view shifted to a split screen, revealing the actor Jordan Peele.
    — Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2018
  • There's a second, smaller pad alongside the main one that allows for swipe motions to control the right side of the split screen.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Just tap the recent apps button and press the multi-window symbol in the app’s title bar to launch it in split screen mode.
    — Time, 9 Mar. 2018
  • And the couple spent the day split screen with violence in Gaza at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem earlier this month.
    — Hunter Schwarz, CNN, 30 May 2018
  • Some Texas Democrats see the split screen as an opportunity to mobilize around the moment in their quest to flip the state over the course of the decade.
    — Rick Klein, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2021

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