adjective
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composed of several sections
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of or relating to a section
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Origin of sectional
Example Sentences
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Although he was a Republican, Corwin was an “unorthodox” one, wrote University of Virginia professor Norman Graebner in an Ohio History Journal article, “Thomas Corwin and the Sectional Crisis.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2022
“I have a lot of friends who play for a living,” Hagestad said after his 36-hole day at the Sectional.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2019
Sectional Qualifying is played over 36 holes in one day at several sites in the United States, as well as one each in Japan and Europe.
From Golf Digest • Jun. 4, 2018
Open golf championship next month at Oakmont Country Club in the International Sectional qualifier at Walton Heath in Surrey, England on Monday.
From Reuters • May 30, 2016
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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