Example collocations logo

Apart in sentence

1960 examples of Apart in a sentence

The folds are apart when we’re breathing, but when we speak, they slam shut.
These layers add nuance and depth to the voice, giving it a distinct timbre that sets it apart from its pre-pubescent tones.
If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you thought about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.
This is an early-19th-century drawing by another British military officer of such a ceremonial, where the king was involved, and the king's job, one of the large parts of his job, apart from organizing warfare and things like that, was to look after the tombs of his ancestors, and when a king died, the stool that he sat on was blackened and put in the royal ancestral temple, and every 40 days, the King of Asante has to go and do cult for his ancestors.
That's a large part of his job, and people think that if he doesn't do it, things will fall apart.
I read poetry all the time and write about it frequently and take poems apart to see how they work because I'm a word person.
"From far, from eve and morning From yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither; here am I. Now — for a breath I tarry Nor yet disperse apart — Take my hand quick and tell me, What have you in your heart.
Take it apart with your kid, or send him to my school, and we'll take it apart with them.
Even if you don't know what the parts are, puzzling out what they might be for is a really good practice for the kids to get sort of the sense that they can take things apart, and no matter how complex they are, they can understand parts of them.
That's something we often talk about with the kids when we're fooling around with things and breaking them open, and taking them apart and using them for other things.
This is male blogging posture sitting, and the result is, "For greater comfort, men naturally sit with their legs farther apart than women, when working on laptop.
After his death, Octavius joined his general Mark Antony in starting a civil war that tore Rome apart, then stabbed his ally in the back to increase his own power.
And faith is a separate thing apart and distinct from science.
Under Roger II, the kingdom became a beacon of multicultural tolerance in a world torn apart by religious and civil wars.
Now the other thing you'll notice about the top 10 there is, of course, they're all, apart from New Zealand, Western European nations.
There's a scrapyard here where people take apart all kinds of things, from mobile phones to computers, automobiles to even entire airplanes.
If, in the future, someone tells you Agbogbloshie is the largest e-waste dump in the world, I hope you can correct them and explain to them that a dump is a place where you throw things away and leave them forever; a scrapyard is where you take things apart.
When I was growing up, I liked taking toys apart, any kind of toys I'd find around the house, like my brother's BB gun when he's not home.
And my grandfather was a kind of guy who would not only take things apart, but he got me interested in all sorts of different odd crafts, like, you know, printing, like the letter press.
When I was a kid, I was always, like, taking apart boxes and stuff.
And last night in the hotel, I took apart the Kleenex box.
J: And how far apart are they coming?
Proteins are coming in now that basically pinch off this vesicle, making it separate from the rest of the membrane, and now clathrin is basically done with its job, and so proteins are coming in now — we've covered them yellow and orange — that are responsible for taking apart this clathrin cage.
When a new particle accelerator came online, some people anxiously asked, could it destroy the Earth or, even worse, rip apart the fabric of space?
My body may be falling apart, but my brain is not, yet.
Apart from dodging the occasional vehicle, it was a safe and easy way to get around.
We've found that sleep may actually be a kind of elegant design solution to some of the brain's most basic needs, a unique way that the brain meets the high demands and the narrow margins that set it apart from all the other organs of the body.
For the last 20 years, I've been working in countries and cities ripped apart by conflict, violence, terrorism, or some insidious combination of all.
Today, it's 21 million people, and apart from accounting for three quarters of Pakistan's GDP, it's also one of the most violent cities in South Asia.
I feel that tug of human exceptionalism, even as I recognize the scientifically isolating cost of seeing ourselves as a superior species, apart.
BackNext