Example sentences for: compartmentalize

How can you use “compartmentalize” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The intensity of his floor remarks suggests not: "We should not compartmentalize our view and say, 'If they do this with our money that is OK, and who gives a darn what else they do with the rest of their money.

  • Preoccupation with the scandal led a harried and nervous president to send his deputies into a sausage grinder, say Gloria Borger ( Face the Nation ) and Fred Barnes ( McLaughlin Group ). A reluctance to appear in public forums for fear of drawing Lewinsky questions compromises Clinton as commander in chief, says Gigot on Fox News Sunday --Clinton "can't compartmentalize these things the way he wants to."

  • Some say Clinton learned to compartmentalize misdeeds in his Hot Springs, Ark.

  • Whatever goings-on are going on in the executive mansion of the White House, Kennedy's brilliant Cabinet Room performance underscores his ability to "compartmentalize his life," as Hersh nicely puts it in his first chapter (before denying it in the rest of his book).


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