Example sentences for: parting

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

  • The other warned against watching a parting guest out of sight: bad luick would ensue.

  • (H. Allen Smith, an American humorist, called this, and exemplified in his own usage, parting one's name on the side.)

  • 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."

  • One regrets the inevitable parting with words that have served us since Anglo-Saxon times and were here before King Alfred.

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


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