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Sentence Examples
| The dark clouds of 30 years have parted to reveal rocketing educational levels and unemployment as almost a thing of the past. |
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| They parted like the Red Sea and I stepped past them, then turned on my heel so that I could keep an eye on the fight. |
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| The young man's black hair is parted in the middle, he sports a moustache and sideburns, and wears a large black cravat under a wide wing collar. |
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| My heart thumped in my mouth as cyclists parted this sea of sweaty, screaming, sign-toting, picture-snapping fans. |
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| She looked up at him, broken, eyes reddened and wavering in desperation, lips parted slightly. |
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| Beneath the surface the green gloom parted to reveal the foggy apparition of the cutter's mast pointing us down towards the wreck. |
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| It had my audience on the edge of its seats, lips parted, knuckles whitened. |
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| Her eyes, her cruelly turned eyebrow, and her wantonly parted lips evoked a whole range of feelings I'm still trying to fathom. |
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| He will have made enemies of all his former managers, but few quibbled with Thompson's logic when he parted company with each of them. |
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| They parted acrimoniously nine months after the birth of their daughter, Emma, and ended up in court fighting for custody. |
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| As soon as their swords parted, he struck him in the side with the flat of his blade. |
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| The lips are slightly parted and a cord made of knotted strips of raveled red cloth hangs to the floor, where the crow grasps it in its beak. |
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| Absent government-imposed distortions, a fool and his money are soon parted. |
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| They say there's no fool like an old fool, and a fool and his money are soon parted. |
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| When I was nineteen years old, I parted from the church even though my father was the reverend. |
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| After all, a fool and his money are soon parted, and the victims of these scams have brought financial misfortune on themselves, isn't that right? |
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| Thousands listened to this man with a weather-beaten face, long hair parted like a woman's, eyes flashing, clothes a mass of rags, a big toe protruding from a moccasin. |
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| Laughable they may be, but a fool and his money are soon parted. |
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| She had parted with her jeans and t-shirt ensemble and had been fitted with a slim wrap-around, just-about-the-knee, blue swirly skirt and a matching, single shouldered shirt. |
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| The sea of shiny starlets with perfect curls parted as McCain, in a cream-colored suit and close-cropped hair, traversed the room. |
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| They danced to music pounding from the crackling speakers, sipped beers and then parted. |
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| He smiled, before leaning in and pressing his parted lips to my neck. |
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| When all was settled, the two couples parted, one getting into their limousine to be taken to the airport while the other into their car to go home. |
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| Striking a nearby tree with his fist, Briar shook off the resulting pain and parted the branches of a weeping willow to enter the secluded clearing that was his haven. |
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| His hair is cleanly parted to the side, like a high-school yearbook photo. |
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| The hair was parted across the top with three sections hanging down in front. |
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| McCartan and I gave London a hasty goingover, had a calm Channel crossing, and parted company in Paris, when I went on towards Rome. |
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| They parted ways, with Barentsz continuing northeast, while Rijp headed north. |
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| For this reason therefore they parted with great dissatisfaction, and the King Malcolm returned to Scotland. |
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| Esophageal Funnel is a situation anterior in which the tips of the esophageal sectors are parted infundibuliformly. |
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| He parted company with Bonnet and settled in Bath Town, where he accepted a royal pardon. |
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| In July 2011, Rowling parted company with her agent, Christopher Little, moving to a new agency founded by one of his staff, Neil Blair. |
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| On 5 February 2013, Nottingham Forest and Alex McLeish had parted company by mutual agreement, just 40 days after McLeish took charge of Forest. |
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| On 28 September the following year, Sunderland's contract was terminated and he and the club parted company. |
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| She never parted with an entire Ministry or accepted an entirely new one regardless of the results of an election. |
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| Following the beheading, it refused to be parted from its owner's body and was covered in her blood, until it was forcibly taken away and washed. |
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| On 9 December 2015, Swansea City announced that they had parted ways with manager Garry Monk after one win in eleven matches. |
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| In late January 2010 Rough Trade Management, who with Jeanette Lee had managed Duffy, announced that they and the singer had parted amicably. |
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| If the serrated wire parted the mine mooring cable, the mine would bob to the surface to be destroyed by gunfire. |
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| The nearly empty Monarca parted her cable and was wrecked during the night. |
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| During the passage from Dover, C1 parted with its tow and arrived too late to take part in the operation. |
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| Y DNA studies tend to imply a small number of founders in an old population whose members parted and followed different migration paths. |
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| Since I parted with Darnley, who went in to adonise, I believe, Cameron has been hindering me with acknowledgments and regrets. |
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| While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. |
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| The two fell out and parted in Tuscany because Walpole wanted to attend fashionable parties and Gray wanted to visit all the antiquities. |
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| Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. |
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| Those she loved best had all parted from her, and she remained to battle for existence alone, with a crowd of unsympathizers round her. |
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| Simon is close to his daughter, Alannah, now eight, although he has long since parted from her mum, Nichola. |
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| Through a spokesperson, Klaus does not deny that he and Cato parted ways. |
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| Bossyboots Amy Adams gives Kerry barkeep Matthew Goode a rough ride after she's parted from boyfriend Adam Scott in Dublin. |
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| The reality show casanova has parted ways with his Lillie Gregg, with the brunette taking to Twitter to say their split was a mutual decision. |
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| Anthony, who recently parted ways with wife Jennifer Lopez, says people are trying to sensationalise his split, reports People. |
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| Arriving at Bear Island again on 1 July, Rijp parted company, while Heemskerck and Barents proceeded eastward, intending to pass round the northern extreme of Novaya Zemlya. |
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| It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths. |
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| In July 2012 it was announced that Weyler and the band had parted company. |
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| In November 2006, it was announced that she and Sony had parted ways. |
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| The band parted ways with producer Andrew Oldham during the sessions. |
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| Then he had bent and kissed her parted lips, gently at first, then passionately, drawing her, dishclout and suds and all, into his strong brown arms. |
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| In March 1995, the group parted from Heart Management due to their frustration with the company's unwillingness to listen to their visions and ideas. |
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| On 1 December 1969, Barry and Maurice parted ways professionally. |
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| They married in 1979, but less than five years later they parted when she discovered he was having an affair with his manager's secretary, Gill Bennett. |
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| But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve. |
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| Palmer parted the towering saltgrass and pickleweed downwind of the elk. |
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| On 18 June 1819, Barry parted from Baillie at Tripoli, Lebanon. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| But it was only the sound they made as they parted the brit which at all reminded one of mowers. |
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| We can't get them and all their clobber in the limber and, if I know 'em, they won't be parted from their belongings. |
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| It has a close helmet from which the hair, delicately parted on the forehead, half escapes. |
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| Hinde had parted from them earlier that evening than he had intended or they had expected. |
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| At clunes I parted with my companions, who determined to take the buggy on to Ballarat. |
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| When we last parted with him after his visit to coed he had not seen the beginning of these attacks. |
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| When they reached Bayonne that night they parted with mutual sentiments of disesteem. |
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| At the control tower they parted, and Tom walked into the clearance office. |
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| The soft air of evening, already tempered with an earnest of the coolth to come, was sweet to taste with parted lips. |
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| I have nothing to boast of, as St. Paul had when he parted with the Ephesian elders. |
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| When they parted, Burns paid Clark his wages in full, gave him a written character, and a shilling for a fairing. |
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| She hung on to a reef, and not until she had parted with her false keel would she push on and gain the open. |
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| Lethington told du croc that, when Mary called to him, and he went to her, she complained of being parted from Bothwell. |
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| A shield parted in the centre by an horizontal line through the fess point. |
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| After giving him fully to understand his culpability in the matter, we parted. |
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| Inspector McCausland had just parted company with the fire marshal and was sauntering carelessly about. |
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| At the head of the stairs they parted, Milbrey joining the lady who had waited for him. |
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| Mrs. Bluebeard would have parted with her, but she had no other female relative. |
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| He held my hands when we parted and looked into my eyes, and I saw that his own were shining. |
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| For cellmate he had Barthlet Green, who parted from him only to meet an agonizing death in the flames, as an arch-heretic. |
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| He and I parted, and for ever, at a corner of crossways in the central city. |
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| Her lips were still parted, tender as rose-leaves at dewfall, and her eyes glistened as she opened them at the sound of his voice. |
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| A few days after reaching Henderson, I parted with barro, not without regret, for a hundred and twenty dollars. |
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| He had just parted from Pascual Montara, he said, who was to take his report down to Getafe. |
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| He and gillard had parted immediately after the crime, judging it safer not to be seen together. |
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| The three gentlemen parted most cordially from him after he had paid the check. |
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| The throng had parted before this little procession, averting their eyes from the covered palankeen, as was beseeming. |
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| She was exactly the same as when they had parted, just as handsome, just as scornful, just as repressed. |
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| He prayed Heaven to bless her, and so the affianced lovers parted for the night. |
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| Something which was almost like the ghost of a smile, devoid of any trace of humour, parted Mr. grex's lips. |
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| He had eaten nothing since the hasty luncheon of sea biscuit and pork on the night he and Jimmy parted. |
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| So I parted with my last quarter and was sent to a sheeny store in Broadway. |
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| Her nostrils were dilated, her eyes flashing fire, her lips slightly protruded and parted, her hand waving him off. |
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| A thick crop of dusty brown hair was parted boyishly on the side with a lateral wave above the dry, furrowed forehead. |
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| On the morning of the 9th of September, the travellers parted company with their Indian friends, and continued on their course to the west. |
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| As their wine was measuring out, a man parted from another man in a corner, and rose to depart. |
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| I would have parted with my life willingly, gladly, to serve you. |
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| It's certain that, when we parted that morning, I gloated over it. |
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| Since the moment he had first received these two mementoes Athos had never parted with them. |
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| Madame guerin's eyes glinted, but her lips parted in a smile. |
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| So at the turning into Guilford Square, the father and son parted. |
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| In many places the seams of his garments had parted across the bulges of body. |
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| A stick parted and fell into ash, and Miss Susan came awake. |
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| Mary's lips muttered some words in audibly, and they parted. |
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| Nothing remained but to show her gratitude to Julian by acceding to his wishes, and to ask pardon of Horace before they parted forever. |
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| Thereupon they parted with no blitheness, and Cormac went to his ship. |
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| It parted in a sea-way, and the shock broke the bobstay shackle. |
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| Next morning the bonder rode home, and he and Grettir parted good friends. |
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| And they parted, she all in tears, he brokenhearted, and in anger. |
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| It was dark now, and as they reached the bunkhouse they parted. |
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| We walked together to Charing Cross, and there we shook hands and parted. |
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| Although he was still a little haggard, his eyes were bright, his lips were parted in an anticipatory smile, his whole expression was engaging. |
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| His jaws slightly parted, his lips lifted a little, and a quizzical expression that was more love than humour came into his eyes. |
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| Such were my reasonings, as, in a sort of desperate carelessness, I copied my wife's words, and parted with the last relics of Marianne. |
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| Hardly have they parted than Bassanio repents his seemingly churlish action. |
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| Her lips parted in sudden awe and wonder at the strange revealment of her inner self that was being laid bare before her consciousness. |
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| Consulting his apparent feelings they desisted, and parted in friendship. |
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| Her mouth moved against his, satiny with desire, until they parted. |
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| Early in 1831 he parted from his family at Savona and started north. |
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| With his fingers he gingerly parted his wet, disheveled hair. |
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| She parted the draperies and looked curiously into the room beyond. |
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| The soft bloom of youth still lay upon the brown cheek, a smile half parted the beardless lips. |
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| The sun was beginning to set and sending deep gold-colored rays slanting under the trees when they parted. |
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| There was an ear-piercing clang, and the shield parted down the middle. |
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| What a time it seems to look back since we parted in old Edina. |
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| And is it a year since we parted from you at the steps of Edmonton stage? |
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| We parted with Mr. egger after breakfast with more respect than regret. |
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| Then with a mutual impulse the two bereaved women flung themselves into each other's arms and had a good, consoling cry, and then parted. |
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| But the fatuity of their union was evident to them, and they parted. |
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| They parted with tears and kisses and murmured protestations of fidelity. |
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| The rope had parted, and they were left helpless on the flats. |
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| The parted edges disclosed also the butts of two flintlock pistols. |
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| At the house they parted and headed the fugitive toward the stables. |
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| Her full lips were parted before him, but he did not kiss them. |
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| He parted the shoreward bushes and revealed to me three men lying there. |
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| The hawser, however, parted, and with it the last hope of escape. |
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| He trimmed my fetlocks and legs, passed the tarbrush over my hoofs, and parted my forelock. |
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| Wopsle parted from us at the door of the Jolly Bargemen, and Joe went all the way home with his mouth wide open, to rinse the rum out with as much air as possible. |
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| Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle. |
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| The English laborer is not sold, traded, parted from his family, whipped. |
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