distributed

In a sentence

Six example sentences with distributed, each labelled with its topic.

• The service runs on distributed servers in nine cities, so a fire in one building slows nobody down.

  Technology

• Rainfall is unevenly distributed across the island: the eastern slopes drown while the western plain waits four months.

  Environment

• Land ownership stayed narrowly distributed for generations, with four families holding what thirty villages farmed.

  Economics

• Scoring was evenly distributed across the roster, with seven players in double figures and no one above sixteen.

  Basketball

• The choir was distributed around the balcony, so the sound seemed to come from every wall at once.

  Music

• The company's staff are distributed across four continents, and no office holds more than a fifth of them.

  Business

Found in these word lists

Found in 2 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)

Each source is a published word list that contains distributed. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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