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Example sentences for "parcel"

Lexicographically close words:
paravertebral; parboil; parboiled; parboiling; parce; parceled; parceling; parcell; parcelled; parcelling
  1. Perhaps there is a vast invisible curve and orbit and our different goals and ways are parcel of it, infinitesimal segments.

  2. The blind man opened a parcel and I saw that it contained a small tarpaulin cape.

  3. In about a month, Oliver received a parcel from Mr. Culpepper, containing the little red morocco box, in which was a letter and some papers.

  4. Here he comes, trudging along beside the porter; and I see he has got all the baggage safe, even the brown paper parcel and the calico bag.

  5. He carried a parcel in his hand, which he now unfolded, and laid out on the lid of a mouldy chest half a dozen candles.

  6. Juliette hurried to the kitchen and there prepared a parcel of cold meat and bread for the fugitives to eat as they fled.

  7. He wrapped it carefully in paper, and addressed the small parcel to an expert analyst in Edinburgh.

  8. I suppose he had his brown paper parcel with him?

  9. I hope you'll get your parcel home all right; it's rather a large one, isn't it?

  10. To keep Kitty was part and parcel of that absence she was already beginning to resent.

  11. The parcel she was taking home contained a dress; she had been sitting in it; but it was not the oyster-grey.

  12. A large parcel she was carrying gave her an excuse not to shake hands.

  13. The people of Spain were exasperated at the insolence of the three foreign powers who pretended to parcel out their dominions.

  14. About midday Motty's luggage arrived, and soon afterward a large parcel of what I took to be nice books.

  15. Muriel Singer was there, and we were talking of things in general when there was a bang at the door and the parcel was delivered.

  16. It seemed rummy to me, though, that the parcel of nice books was still there with the string and paper on it.

  17. Slowly opening the covering of the door, his son looked in and seeing his father lying awake, drew back and ran off up the ridge, but soon returned bringing a small parcel with him.

  18. When he entered he gave the parcel to his father and said: "Eat, father; I stole this food for you, so I could not get very much.

  19. Cheapness, then, with, as part and parcel of cheapness, a moderate price of labour, is essential to our success as competitors in the markets of the world.

  20. My friend Yacoub Artin declares that the whole Nile Valley has parcel by parcel been made Wakf at some time or other, and then retaken.

  21. I had taken charge of a parcel for one M.

  22. Peter Carr's greatest concern was the fact that he had never received a letter or parcel from New Zealand.

  23. Now we're all right, Dick," remarked Malcolm as the postman handed him a parcel containing the anxiously-awaited inner tube.

  24. Then he took from beneath the buggy seat a bulky, oil-cloth-wrapped parcel and seated himself near the horse's head.

  25. Eliph' Hewlitt arose from his chair and tucked the oilcloth-covered parcel that had been lying on his knees under his left arm.

  26. He took the oilcloth-covered parcel from beneath his arm, and handed it to the minister gently, lovingly.

  27. He climbed the fence with a reluctance that was the more noticeable because his climbing was retarded by the oilcloth-covered parcel he held beneath his arm.

  28. At last old Jenny James's cottage was reached, and her parcel duly handed out.

  29. Each parcel bore the name of one of the seven old women who were that afternoon to receive a pair of blankets.

  30. Then he snapped: "Air lock area, listen for a knock, and let in the Plumie or the parcel he leaves.

  31. Had I not got a parcel of guineas from you, and such as you, who were pleased to patronise my subscriptions, I should not have had a gray groat.

  32. Peacock says he cannot make up a parcel for you till he has been a second time to Marlow on the question, which cannot be till about Christmas.

  33. This last method would be exactly similar to that employed by the post-office department or the express companies in handling their daily flood tides of small parcel traffic.

  34. Every week there came a great parcel from the next town, and master read them through and through, and then the young lady, and then master often again.

  35. She seized from a parcel of bank-notes as many as she wanted, and paid Mrs. la Mode with three of them for the spring hat.

  36. And is it possible that any man could neglect an invoice merely to go to hear a parcel of frogs croaking in a swamp?

  37. Marvel was settling some accounts with Wright when this note was put into his hands: scarcely had he glanced his eye over it, when he started up, seized a parcel of bank notes, which lay on the table, and was rushing out of the room.

  38. Will, half in jest, half in earnest, snatched up a parcel of the notes; and Bob insisted on dividing the treasure.

  39. One night, Leonard went to the house where the confederates met, to settle with them for the last parcel of notes that he had passed.

  40. It was only a servant with a parcel of bills, which several tradesmen, hearing that an execution was in the house, had hastened to present for payment.

  41. As the proprietor was making up her parcel he saw her stagger and fall.

  42. No one is allowed to take anything away, and if the lodger has a parcel he is required to leave it at the bar.

  43. It's only fair, because you wouldn't let me have a parcel of my own on the other side.

  44. There were a great many wrappings, and the dimensions of the parcel diminished so rapidly as to excuse serious fears that it contained nothing more substantial than a joke, but such an idea was an insult to Pam's generosity.

  45. Once more disappointment awaited them, for a brown-paper parcel was the nearest approach to a governess which met their gaze, and the return to the drawing-room was conducted in a much more leisurely and dignified manner than the exit.

  46. Instantly Jack gave a flick to the string, to which the parcel responded by jumping an inch or two farther along the pavement.

  47. She ran downstairs into the hall, where Jack was awaiting her with a brown-paper parcel tucked under his arm, and together they crossed the road to the nearest gate, and let themselves into the garden with a heavy key.

  48. Was it possible that a human creature could be so surfeited with the good things of this world, that she could behold an unopened parcel lying on the ground, and feel no curiosity to discover what was inside?

  49. It's a very useful present, dear," Mrs Trevor said consolingly, and hastened to give the conversation a turn by doling out another parcel from her own tray.

  50. His gloved hand had nearly closed on the parcel when Jack adroitly flicked it a few inches away.

  51. She looked at the parcel with blank indifference, and passed quietly on her way.

  52. We were in the Square hiding behind the bushes, and we had a parcel just the right size to hold something nice and pretty--it was cotton-wool really!

  53. Hang the Union, if it employ a parcel of thugs to do its work!

  54. Destroy the only free republic the world has ever known for a parcel of well-fed niggers that'll relapse into Voodoo barbarism the moment they're freed!


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parcel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    parcel post; parcels post