APART in a Sentence

Learn APART from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
295 example sentences for APART, such as:
1. Stand with your feet wide apart.
2. Catch one's heart,never be apart.
3. They drew apart with stricken faces.
4. He hacked the box apart with the ax.
5. The camera just came apart the first time I used it.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of APART
apart
 ad.  placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
 ad.  into parts or pieces
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Their arms had slipped apart and they stood motionless, each seeking to distinguish the other's face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  They drew apart with stricken faces.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Ellen O'Hara was different, and Scarlett regarded her as something holy and apart from all the rest of humankind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Matrons, regardless of their ages, always grouped together apart from the bright-eyed girls, beaux and laughter, for there were no married belles in the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Since then, Ashley had sat on a stool at Melanie's feet, apart from the other guests, and talked quietly with her, smiling the slow drowsy smile that Scarlett loved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  As her eyes wandered from Melanie, she caught the gaze of Rhett Butler, who was not mixing with the crowd but standing apart talking to John Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  The stores and the new war buildings were farther apart now, with vacant lots between.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  The houses were farther and farther apart now, and leaning out Scarlett saw the red brick and slate roof of Miss Pittypat's house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  The dim shapes of houses grew farther and farther apart and unbroken woods loomed wall-like on either side.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Then the bushes beside them crashed apart under heavy hooves and a low moaning bawl assaulted their ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Though unrelated by blood and far apart in age, there was a kinship of spirit and experience binding these women together.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  She looked at him and realized dimly that there was an integrity of spirit in him which was not to be torn apart by her passionate hands, nor by any hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  So the gossip ran, tearing the town apart, tearing apart, too, the close-knit clan of Hamiltons, Wilkeses, Burrs, Whitemans and Winfields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
Example Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown.
2  Perhaps it is the almost universal use of flavourings that makes it so hard to tell the products apart.
3  He took it apart brick by brick, and put it back together again.
4  I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma.
5  Love you, think of you, love you secretly, eagerly love you, wait, feel disappointed, try hard, lose, and feel sad, go apart, and recall.
6  It's easy to take a watch apart but difficult to put it together again.
7  Stand with your feet wide apart.
8  He was standing a bit apart from the rest of us, watching us.
9  He hacked the box apart with the ax.
10  She was the only British competitor apart from Richard Meade.
11  They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
12  The camera just came apart the first time I used it.
13  Catch one's heart,never be apart.
14  The country has been torn apart by years of civil strife.
15  Their concept of a performance and our concept were miles apart.