PARCEL in a Sentence
Learn PARCEL 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.
69 example sentences for PARCEL, such as:
1. Just guess what is in the parcel.
2. The parcel was delivered last week.
3. He tore at the cover of the parcel.
4. I'm sending a parcel to you per bearer.
5. She sent a parcel of books to her brother.
2. The parcel was delivered last week.
3. He tore at the cover of the parcel.
4. I'm sending a parcel to you per bearer.
5. She sent a parcel of books to her brother.
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Meanings and Examples of PARCEL
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parcel
n. an extended area of land
v. cover with strips of canvas
Classic Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1 He was not the tall drowsy boy she loved but part and parcel of the Wilkeses, Twelve Oaks, the County--and she hated them all because they laughed.
2 Unwinding the latter, she produced a small parcel wrapped in dirty newspaper.
3 While she spoke she had loosened the string from the parcel in her hand, and now she drew forth a letter which she laid on the table between Miss Bart and herself.
4 This falling for anybody's say-so about medical jealousy and competition is simply part and parcel of your usual willingness to think the worst you possibly can of us poor dubs in Gopher Prairie.
5 Likewise, there was a parcel of outlandish bone fish hooks on the shelf over the fire-place, and a tall harpoon standing at the head of the bed.
6 Still more, his very legs were marked, as if a parcel of dark green frogs were running up the trunks of young palms.
7 The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.
8 The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.
9 The youth remained on the ground like a parcel.
10 "I brought a little parcel of these for him," she said, tugging at her pocket to get out the package.
11 Topsy hesitated; but, on a second order, pulled out of her bosom a little parcel done up in the foot of one of her own old stockings.
12 Instantly there broke from the grey parcel a little moaning cry, and from it there protruded a small, scared face, with very bright brown eyes, and two little speckled, dimpled fists.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
13 With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
14 There, Fanny, you shall carry that parcel for me; take great care of it: do not let it fall; it is a cream cheese, just like the excellent one we had at dinner.
15 Her companion was not encumbered with much luggage, as there merely dangled from a stick which he carried over his shoulder, a small parcel wrapped in a common handkerchief, and apparently light enough.
Example Sentence:
1 I am going to take the parcel to the post office this afternoon.
2 She carried the parcel in the crook of her arm.
3 The parcel was delivered last week.
4 The sticky tape on the parcel came unstuck and the whole thing came undone.
5 She sent a parcel of books to her brother.
6 I managed secretly to undo a corner of the parcel.
7 He tore at the cover of the parcel.
8 Just guess what is in the parcel.
9 She mentioned in a postscript to her letter that the parcel had arrived.
10 I need a piece of string to tie this parcel up.
11 The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
12 I'm sending a parcel to you per bearer.
13 Love does not involve giving fancy parcels tied up with big red bows.
14 I have wrapped the parcels and they're ready to be posted.
15 He was burdened down with cumbersome parcels.