separately
adverb
sep·a·rate·ly
ˈse-p(ə-)rət-lē 
ˈse-pərt-lē
: in a separate manner or by separate means : not together with someone or something else
She and her husband drove separately to the restaurant.
The software is sold separately from the hardware.
The professor met with each student separately.
Examples of separately in a Sentence
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The package consists of four bills that will be voted on separately and then combined into one before being sent to the Senate.
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Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2024
President Joe Biden has already expressed support for the effort, which Speaker Mike Johnson attached to a larger foreign aid package that includes three bills that separately provides billions for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
The couple had been photographed at Disneyland hours earlier on Tuesday and later appeared unfazed as both drove and rode around Los Angeles separately on Wednesday.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
This crib is also on the higher price end, especially since the toddler conversion kit is sold separately.
—Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 19 Apr. 2024
If convicted, Thug and his five remaining co-defendants (the others either cut plea deals or will be tried separately) could face up to two decades in prison.
—Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
That does not count the $255,000 that the Royals contributed separately to Freedom Inc. and three campaign committees with close ties to county legislator and Freedom Inc. board member DaRon McGee for advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2024
In October 1868, two astronomers, Pierre Jules César Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer, separately measured the colors of sunlight during a total eclipse.
—Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
America owned the semiconductor industry after Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor separately invented the chip in the late 1950s, but the technology’s worldwide spread was inevitable.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2024
President Joe Biden has already expressed support for the effort, which Speaker Mike Johnson attached to a larger foreign aid package that includes three bills that separately provides billions for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific region.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
The couple had been photographed at Disneyland hours earlier on Tuesday and later appeared unfazed as both drove and rode around Los Angeles separately on Wednesday.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2024
This crib is also on the higher price end, especially since the toddler conversion kit is sold separately.
—Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 19 Apr. 2024
If convicted, Thug and his five remaining co-defendants (the others either cut plea deals or will be tried separately) could face up to two decades in prison.
—Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024
That does not count the $255,000 that the Royals contributed separately to Freedom Inc. and three campaign committees with close ties to county legislator and Freedom Inc. board member DaRon McGee for advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2024
In October 1868, two astronomers, Pierre Jules César Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer, separately measured the colors of sunlight during a total eclipse.
—Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
America owned the semiconductor industry after Texas Instruments and Fairchild Semiconductor separately invented the chip in the late 1950s, but the technology’s worldwide spread was inevitable.
—Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
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“Separately.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/separately. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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