Example sentences for: parting

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

  • Shortly after he won the Pulitzer Prize for Parting the Waters (1988), which chronicled the first decade of the civil-rights movement, author Taylor Branch told a reporter that he would probably complete his second and final volume by the fall of 1990, "when the money runs out."

  • The Star had its own version of her parting words.

  • The industry calls this technique "treatment acceptance," a marvelous euphemism for parting you from your money.

  • These Western states introduced video gambling in the late '80s and early '90s for one reason: It is a stupendously effective way of parting citizens from their money.

  • This translation conveys the meaning of the French title, all right, but is nevertheless unacceptable because such jaunty informality would be totally out of character for the priest whose warm yet solemn farewell at a tragic parting gives the movie its title.


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