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Example sentences for: parting
How can you use “parting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The motions had names like "parting the wild horse's mane" and "repulsing the monkey."
The other warned against watching a parting guest out of sight: bad luick would ensue.
The 1996 elections had no sooner sloughed into despond than I came across the following sentence in an election-eve wrap-up by Michael Lewis in the New Republic . "There is no denying," Lewis wrote, in the finale to an antic "Campaign Journal" series that saw him parting the crowds around various presidential entourages with the prosthetic assistance of a television Steadycam on his shoulder, "that I was excited by working alongside Ted Koppel, driven less by a Fallovian desire to inform the public than a lust to become rich and famous."
In my youth, one said Goodbye God be with you on parting.
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.