How to Use parcel in a Sentence

parcel

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• But the prospect of the $30 million parcel becoming a high-rise has struck a nerve.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
• No auctions have been scheduled yet for the 20-acre parcel.
  — The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• 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
• And the West End project will require a zoning variance to exceed the parcels’ 65-foot height limit.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• Their vision was to lease office space and then rent smaller parcels of it to customers.
  — Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• The parcel of land where the mural now stands once had a single-family home.
  — Jayati Ramakrishnan, oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
• This opens the door to gaining permission on any parcel.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
• The city now owns the parcels where a longtime Sears store operated until 2017.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2023
• Holding the rights to three of the choicest parcels is Gerard Barron and the Metals Company.
  — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• The royal wore a similar gray sleeveless sweater over a blouse to pack parcels of food and clothes with young Ukrainians who arrived in the U.K. in the last year.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
• Thoughtful touches abound, like a rear window that can be opened without opening the hatch and a net to keep parcels contained in the back of the wagon.
  — Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
• Those parcels constituted roughly half of the Lazy L Ranch, the compound where most of the family lives.
  — J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 15 May 2023
• That was a key step toward transferring the 6.2-acre parcel, once owned by the Goodell Family Trust, to the tribes.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• How is current moving around strange metals if not in electron-like parcels of charge?
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• The demand for letter services has seen a decline as parcel services have picked up, thanks to the growth in e-commerce.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 25 Jan. 2024
• The university sought court approval to take at least one parcel, records show.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Howey case involved the sale of real estate parcels in Florida that came with orange groves, and promised the purchaser income from the sale of the fruit.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 29 June 2023
• Dosch also had an ace up his sleeve: Permission on a parcel of land that hadn’t been hunted for 10 years.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 13 Dec. 2023
• City seized land last year In 2022, the city seized two of the three land parcels the recycling plant sits on after Smith failed to pay property taxes.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• One of the two parcels is vacant and is envisioned for safe parking so that people can stay overnight in their vehicles.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2024
• The arrangement barred tribal members from leasing parcels for more than five years.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Silva lives right next door to the parcel of land where the perinatal facility would be built.
  — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2024
• The unique approach here places ownership of these parcels in a community trust.
  — Prakash Kashwan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2023
• Now, less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains — and it’s scattered across the state in parcels.
  — Susan McFarland, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• And a decision was made to divide what was left into three separate parcels.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• About 8,000 commercial parcels in the area are also getting reassessed.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
• In 2018, Los Angeles County passed a parcel tax to, among other things, address toxic runoff and clean up its rivers.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial soils and farms with patchworks of small land parcels.
  — Robert M. Thorson, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2023
• Fire Station 2 currently consists of five buildings on a 2.28 acre parcel.
  — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024
• In a concrete jungle where few residents have yards, the tiny parcels offer New Yorkers a rare chance to dig into the soil, connect with nature and make something beautiful grow.
  — Jane Margolies, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024

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parcel

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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
• 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
• Trump’s legal team will then get 24 hours as well, parceled out in the same manner.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• It will be carved up and parceled out, used as chum for various playlists.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018
• 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
• Or, make a giant batch of food on Sunday and parcel it out throughout the week.
  — Danika Worthington, The Know, 18 Apr. 2017
• My mother parceled out the sins of my father, like jigsaw pieces, spread out over too many years.
  — Robin Antalek, Longreads, 22 Apr. 2020
• The license came after the nursery sued over the rules that parceled out the initial licenses.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Where would these people (and I) score their fix of Thin Mints to stash in the freezer and parcel out over the course of the year, if not for the sign-up sheet at the office?
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017
• 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
• This week, the world might ask you to parcel out your energy carefully.
  — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 14 May 2018
• Harms said, after the district bought the hotel parcel outright.
  — Marci Shatzman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
• 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
• Bella is part of and parcel with Thorne’s strategic re-branding.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2018
• In South Florida, there’s a new box some buyers may want to check: What will that parcel look like when sea levels rise?
  — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 21 Mar. 2018
• To protect its strike fund, the UAW doesn't start parceling out strike benefits to members until Day 8.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
• As in the Dead Space games, information about the crew and the events that led them to evacuate the Origin are parceled out in the form of recordings and computer data.
  — Samantha Nelson, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• Much of the resources in public health trickle down from the CDC, which distributes money to states, which then parcel it out to counties.
  — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Their traits are parceled out on a one-per-customer basis: Humphrey’s a patsy, King a worrier, Carmichael a hothead and Wallace a weasel.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Actually, the money would go to state agencies to parcel out.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• The bank gets a 39 percent credit on its federal taxes, parceled out over seven years.
  — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Buying the Caswells' 250 contiguous acres is easy, compared to the way in which the family acquired it, parcel by parcel, over time.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
• Dozens of Acoma girls were parceled out to convents in Mexico City, and adolescents were sentenced to decades of servitude.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2017
• The county also had to override restrictive rules placed on the West Lake Park parcel that limited the site to park and recreation uses.
  — Larry Barszewski, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Subway parcels its vast network of stores into more than 100 regional fiefs.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2019
• The three-week concert series, parceled out among several churches, presents repertory from baroque to brand-new.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
• 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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