Example sentences for: departure

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

  • In a wise departure from standard newspaper practice, the Post doesn't clean up Willey's quotes, so that its report communicates a good deal of the emotion of the televised interview: "And then he, then he, then he kissed me on, on my mouth and, and pulled me closer to him.

  • Leonardo’s Annunciation (1472–1477) of a few years later already shows his characteristic gentle tone and feeling for precise detail, and the Adoration of the Magi, even as an underdrawing left unfinished by his departure for Milan (1481), reveals his revolutionary power of psychological observation.

  • In the days just before 9/11, the hijackers returned leftover funds to al Qaeda and assembled in their departure cities.

  • The momentary sell-off, though, was not driven by any rational consideration of what Greenspan's departure might mean.

  • It turns out that although the announcement of Johnson's replacement by Clinton budget director Franklin Raines "surprised many Washington insiders" -- Chatterbox's White House source said it seemed to happen quickly at the last minute--it was really a long-planned "crafted departure" that "culminated a process begun several years ago" when Johnson decided to "limit his tenure with Fannie Mae to a decade."


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