APART in a Sentence

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The houses were farther and farther apart now, and leaning out Scarlett saw the red brick and slate roof of Miss Pittypat's house.

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 Meanings and Examples of APART
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
apart
 ad.  separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Their arms had slipped apart and they stood motionless, each seeking to distinguish the other's face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  They drew apart with stricken faces.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Ellen O'Hara was different, and Scarlett regarded her as something holy and apart from all the rest of humankind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Matrons, regardless of their ages, always grouped together apart from the bright-eyed girls, beaux and laughter, for there were no married belles in the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Since then, Ashley had sat on a stool at Melanie's feet, apart from the other guests, and talked quietly with her, smiling the slow drowsy smile that Scarlett loved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  As her eyes wandered from Melanie, she caught the gaze of Rhett Butler, who was not mixing with the crowd but standing apart talking to John Wilkes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  The stores and the new war buildings were farther apart now, with vacant lots between.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  The houses were farther and farther apart now, and leaning out Scarlett saw the red brick and slate roof of Miss Pittypat's house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  The dim shapes of houses grew farther and farther apart and unbroken woods loomed wall-like on either side.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Then the bushes beside them crashed apart under heavy hooves and a low moaning bawl assaulted their ears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Though unrelated by blood and far apart in age, there was a kinship of spirit and experience binding these women together.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  She looked at him and realized dimly that there was an integrity of spirit in him which was not to be torn apart by her passionate hands, nor by any hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  So the gossip ran, tearing the town apart, tearing apart, too, the close-knit clan of Hamiltons, Wilkeses, Burrs, Whitemans and Winfields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
Example Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
16  While the two are only days apart in age they seem to belong to wholly different generations.
17  A dog can tear a rabbit apart in seconds.
18  We draw further apart, but the same.
19  The beggar tore the chicken apart and began to eat.
20  The two buildings are eight metres apart.
21  Nothing else matters to him apart from his job.
22  She was happy apart from the fact that she could not return home.
23  Sometimes things have to fall apart to make way for better things.
24  The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
25  Tony emerged unscathed apart from a severely bruised finger.
26  The two parties were still too much apart to form an alliance.
27  What sets it apart from hundreds of similar small French towns is the huge factory.
28  After their worst quarrel, Jim and Mary wondered if they should live apart for a time to try to improve their relationship.
29  I picked the magazine up and it came apart in my hands.
30  The two halves of the main branch have grown apart, forming separate trees.