How to Use parcel in a Sentence
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Then a parcel of land came up for sale.
—Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
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The parcels are near high-growth areas.
—Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 6 Feb. 2026
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The 15 acres are part of three parcels that make up the course.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
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Google bought every parcel through all-cash deals.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
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Most of the parcels purchased last week are south of the summit and are not part of the loop.
—John Meyer, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
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One is visibly laden with a large amount of parcels or bundles.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
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Lots of the people who were waiting for parcels had no form of transport.
—Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
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And sometimes all that’s needed is a parcel of land.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
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The 55-year leases for two of the three parcels that make up the golf course are up.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
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Few other parcels of land in this country present such a championship test.
—Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 21 June 2026
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The services identified the same parcel about two out of three times.
—Ginny Monk, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2026
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Their vision was to lease office space and then rent smaller parcels of it to customers.
—Time, 9 Aug. 2023
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About 73 percent of these parcels came from China.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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How is current moving around strange metals if not in electron-like parcels of charge?
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
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Asking prices for all the parcels come to just under $31 million.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Mail and parcels have not been processed and delivered throughout the strike.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Oct. 2025
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The abode was completed just two years ago, built on a parcel of land that used to hold a cottage.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
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If building rules are relaxed, that parcel would be very valuable.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025
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Since then, the parcel has remained an empty green expanse.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
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The town confirmed the new parcels will add about 30 acres to Idlewild Park.
—Mary Ramsey april 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
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In southeastern Colorado, hunters can seek out game on three new parcels of state trust land.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
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The parcel of land where the mural now stands once had a single-family home.
—Jayati Ramakrishnan, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
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The roughly half-acre parcel of land for the parking lot is adjacent to that site.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2025
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Plans also indicate two ponds on the parcel.
—Erik S. Hanley, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Each is tucked away from town and situated on substantial parcels of land.
—Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
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From there, those parcels on the same route can be loaded onto an outbound truck in last-in, first-out order.
—Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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The office buildings are all on different parcels.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
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Open space reports also show that the state acquired small land parcels nearly every month last year.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
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That parcel increased the size of their estate to about an acre, property records show.
—Darrell Hofheinz, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
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The university sought court approval to take at least one parcel, records show.
—Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
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Or parcel it into meals for days on end.
—Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 26 Mar. 2026
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It will be carved up and parceled out, used as chum for various playlists.
—New York Times, 9 May 2018
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The first three devices were parcel bombs dropped off in front of homes in the Austin area.
—Jon Herskovitz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2018
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Trump’s legal team will then get 24 hours as well, parceled out in the same manner.
—Brian Barrett, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
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My mother parceled out the sins of my father, like jigsaw pieces, spread out over too many years.
—Robin Antalek, Longreads, 22 Apr. 2020
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That leaves eight open spots for the rest of the field, to be parceled out first via victories, and then via points.
—Matt Crossman, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2017
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Such loans are made from banks to companies and then parceled out to other banks and investors.
—Max Colchester and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
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So there couldn’t be a better time to parcel out a caviar tree ornament to foodie friends.
—Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2022
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Or, make a giant batch of food on Sunday and parcel it out throughout the week.
—Danika Worthington, The Know, 18 Apr. 2017
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This week, the world might ask you to parcel out your energy carefully.
—Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 14 May 2018
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Bella is part of and parcel with Thorne’s strategic re-branding.
—Maya Singer, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2018
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To lug the weather station to top of the world had required parceling its pieces out among the members of their team.
—National Geographic, 27 June 2019
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The license came after the nursery sued over the rules that parceled out the initial licenses.
—Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2017
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Harms said, after the district bought the hotel parcel outright.
—Marci Shatzman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
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But the lake that emerged was not a broad recreational basin with endless waterfront to parcel and sell.
—Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
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This searchable database is a handy way to compare the value of your home or parcel to others on your street or in your city.
—Rich Exner, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2017
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Actually, the money would go to state agencies to parcel out.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
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The bank gets a 39 percent credit on its federal taxes, parceled out over seven years.
—Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Oct. 2017
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Subway parcels its vast network of stores into more than 100 regional fiefs.
—New York Times, 28 June 2019
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His son, a physiotherapist, was helping to parcel out medicines.
—New York Times, 11 July 2021
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The three-week concert series, parceled out among several churches, presents repertory from baroque to brand-new.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
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Something similar, if slightly less dramatic, can be said of income and wealth — it’s not parceled out in a balanced way.
—Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
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Leaders should prioritize so their teams can parcel out their time and energy to the most impactful tasks.
—Christine Trodella, Quartz at Work, 1 Dec. 2020
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In Odisha, the state’s commission has earmarked common household items such as stools, kettles and lamps to parcel out.
—Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
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That money is largely parceled out to local communities — many rural and with struggling economies — where the drilling occurs.
—Philly.com, 1 Oct. 2017
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The Sox have parceled out their international bonuses in recent years, signing lower-grade prospects in bulk.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2020
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If nobody bids on the house, Pappas may be forced to parcel off fragments as antiques or building material.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Aug. 2017
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He was parceled out to relatives as far west as Oregon, always the outsider in these surrogate families.
—Edward Kosner, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
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Town officials and residents have been through many discussions of the now vacant parcel off Broad Street in the last decade.
—Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 9 July 2019
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Despite whatever whiff of desolation and vacancy the West still manages to conjure up for tourists, it was parceled up long ago.
—Longreads, 8 May 2018
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