How to Use part in a Sentence

part

1 of 3 noun

• The entire book is good, but the best part is the ending.
• Come join us and be part of a winning team.
• My favorite part of the chicken is the drumstick.
• Do you have any spare parts for this model of car?
• The parts of a radio include the speaker, dials, and antenna.
• The mechanic had to order the part from the manufacturer.
• I don't remember him saying that. I must have missed that part.
• The pope lost part of a lung due to an illness some 50 years ago.
  — Claudio Lavanga, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The Wiggles continue to be a huge part of kids' lives around the world.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
• Zegras has two of them in the NHL as part of his 51 career goals.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• For the event, Mirren wore her shoulder-length hair with a sleek side part.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
• The central part of the state and in the Ouachita Mountains have a number of sightings.
  — Becca Martin-Brown, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023
• Radcliffe somehow missed the part where the child star becomes an unhinged jerk.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
• For the most part, the game flow — either by design or sheer luck — worked out really well.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023
• Prosecutors have framed the vote as part of a wider move to overthrow the government at the time.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
• Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• The meat thermometer goes into the thickest part of the inner thigh, near the breast, but not touching bone.
  — Kathleen Purvis, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Fill your life with things to look forward to that will remain part of you, regardless of the state of your dating life.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• Twitter as a whole was in a perilous spot in 2016, due in part to the broader industry’s pivot to video.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Rebounding from the 2023 World Cup was part of what made the two goals special, Smith acknowledged.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Glossier Cyber Monday sale 2023 is among our favorites—in part because the beauty brand's price cuts are so damn rare.
  — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023
• Often you’ll be greeted by a crowd of locals gathered to ogle the ritzy ship, still a curious sight in these parts.
  — Alex Greggery, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
• His allies immediately latched on to the case as part of their quest to keep him in power.
  — Amy Gardner, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2024
• As on last summer’s trek, Charlie Worsham will be a part of Bentley’s band.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
• The formula is scent-free and, for the most part, goes undetected (while still nourishing the skin).
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• As part of the Blueprint, Maryland public schools will help students achieve college and career-ready status by the end of the 10th grade.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• Mosaic art has been a part of Roman life for centuries.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
• In the past, treatments were blunt tools that caused lots of collateral damage to healthy parts of the body while treating cancer.
  — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
• Thanks in part to the efforts of Koch and Chalmers, more researchers than ever are trying to solve the conundrum of consciousness.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
• Israel Defense Forces are going house to house in the southern part of the country near Gaza, in an effort to clear the area of Hamas militants.
  — WSJ, 8 Oct. 2023

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part

2 of 3 verb

• The rain stopped and the clouds parted.
• She parts her hair on the side.
• The two lovers parted at dawn.
• The crowd parted to let the president through.
• She closed her eyes and parted her lips.
• His dark hair was parted down the middle.
• The big red curtains parted to reveal a new car!
• She couldn't bear the thought of parting from her family.
• Tomorrow we shall part and, I fear, never see each other again.
• The Bible tells the story of how God parted the Red Sea.
• By the time the fog had parted, the ships were set to collide.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024
• Just part your hair down the middle and use the clips to hold it up.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 15 July 2023
• But some species cannot bear to part with their old selves.
  — Sabrina Imbler, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
• Poole parted his hair to show the scar above his forehead.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 23 Mar. 2023
• Lopez wore her hair in loose waves, parted at the middle.
  — Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2023
• Their parting words are part of the display in Norwell.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• At one point, the clouds even parted and sun peered through areas of the region.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
• All the while, Sheila left the viewers with some parting words about her journey.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
• Lively wore a tube top, black jeans and her locks curled and parted to one side.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
• Her eyes were half open, lips parted, hands in her lap and upturned.
  — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Her hair was parted in the middle and hung down her back, reaching her waist.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 28 June 2023
• Before Mac could say some parting words to his coach, Legend came through with the steal.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
• The loss comes on the heels of a decision to part ways with longtime manager Rick Schantz.
  — Partner Content, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2022
• Cleanshaven, with wavy red hair, parted neatly on the left.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2023
• Her dark brown hair is parted to the left, her hands are folded neatly in her lap.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2023
• Her dark hair was parted down the middle and slicked into a low ponytail.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 11 Aug. 2023
• Don’t part too much hair For those with kinkier hair, their baby hairs might rest beneath the canopy of their afro.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023
• Her hair is parted deeply to one side and is curled under at the ends, hitting just below her chin.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 Mar. 2024
• That's when glorious God gave Moses the power to part it by raising his arm.
  — Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 17 Sep. 2023
• On the trade front, New England appears willing to part ways with Isaiah Wynn.
  — Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2022

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part

3 of 3 adjective

• The claim is a part truth—there is more to the story than they are telling you.
• The nose tackle has been at least a part-time starter for the past three seasons.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2022
• Cashiers are being sought for part-time work, three to three and a half hours a day for 173 days.
  — Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2023
• For starters, there just aren’t as many part-time workers to lay off.
  — Daniel Altman, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The city hopes to create one part-time job, according to its records.
  — Anita Lee, ProPublica, 24 June 2022
• Though the streak is probably more part-time fluke than full-time concern, this might not be the best week to end it.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
• Both the other grandma and I have shared part-time babysitting to help the parents with their work schedules.
  — Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 2022
• Over the next few years, Herrin raced cars part-time while working as a real estate agent.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 8 June 2022
• For one, the model of a part-time CEO is not one that is widely embraced as best practice in the corporate world.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2022
• Due to arrive this fall, the cameras will be used by the department’s 17 full-time and three part-time officers.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022
• The proportion of the whole labor force that is choosing to work part-time hours is at its highest since early 2020.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• Below, meet two West Coast youth activists in the first installment of the multi-part Tokala series for Vogue.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 5 July 2022
• One was Johnson, struggling to survive with arthritic knees and a part-time income.
  — Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• This can be in the form of a part-time job, a side income or just shoring up cash reserves before every step of expansion.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• Ohio State returns six starters on offense and eight full or part-time starters on defense from last season’s 11-2 team.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022
• White began his career of more than two decades in 1985, working with Andre the Giant on a part-time basis.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 20 June 2022
• By that spring, Srinivasan has fulfilled his own prophecy and moved part-time to Singapore.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• Jana Litman moves from her part-time position into the new role as the second full-time sexton.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• The supermarket chain hired 185 part-time workers for its Connecticut stores as a result of the job fair.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022
• To address the backlog, Prosecutor Nathan Smith hired two part-time attorneys thanks to the state funds.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2022
• Her father, Brian, played in college at Stephen F. Austin and today works as a golf pro and a part-time caddie for his daughter.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 15 June 2022
• May, 41, has an hour and a half to pick Thai chili peppers before driving to her part-time job washing dishes in East Hartford.
  — Patrick Raycraft, Hartford Courant, 29 Sep. 2022
• Votto has a no-trade clause, Moustakas is a part-time player who’s set to make $16 million next year and Reynolds and Almora Jr. are bench players.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2022
• The restaurant is expected to employ about 125 full and part-time employees.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 19 Sep. 2022
• Since joining the Richardson family, Max has straight As in school and is working part-time to save money for college.
  — Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• Kadeem Telfort has been a part-time participant in practice at times this week but is expected to suit up against Rice.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 29 Sep. 2022
• Cobbling together a living through part-time jobs had put her in survival mode.
  — Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
• Soon, a balding man wearing black gum boots came into view: Pierre Bizimana, a farmer and a part-time milk collector.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• In the House, members are allowed to hire 18 full-time and four part-time employees, but the special election winner won’t need a complete staff to start out.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2022
• Passing on this knowledge is critical, says Zemen Al Shammari, one of the farmers who works part-time in the Fedek garden.
  — Time, 16 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024