Example sentences for: departs

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

  • Encompass Anna Karenina : while not as revelatory as War \?\ Peace , that title is every bit as sweeping in a related arena: do not forget that the eponymous character departs the book some fifty pages before it ends, leaving her name as a metaphor for the deadly effects of society's conventions, as Tolstoy saw them, on the soul.

  • The one moment in the Washington installation that departs from the chaste array of paintings suggests what this show might have been, in the hands of curators more interested in social context.

  • The notoriously potty-mouthed rap/metal quintet matures a bit on the follow-up to its 1997 debut, Three Dollar Bill, Y'All$ . The band occasionally departs from its hard-core speed metal and ventures into "melodic interludes, user-friendly grooves, and actual harmonious vocals" (Lorraine Ali, Rolling Stone ). The lyrics, by singer Fred Durst (who clambers out of a toilet during the band's stage act), are "still the stuff of monochromatic dude talk," but sometimes they hint at something deeper--like when "the formerly promiscuous singer confesses his shame for past recreational nookie sessions" (Ali).

  • I am happy to let the usually conservative American Heritage Dictionary have the last word: “As with the analogous words data and agenda, the originally plural form has begun to acquire a sense that departs from that of the singular [ medium ]; used as a collective term, media denotes an industry or community.”

  • In Figure 7.2, the lower volume 43-regular has a Cv equal to 1.0, which means the weekly demand departs much more from the average.)


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