DEPART in a Sentence

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Having superadded many injunctions to be sure and not take cold, the old lady at length permitted him to depart.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEPART
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
depart
 v.  go away or leave, especially on a journey; set out
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Seeing his sister ready to depart, he got up, rather hurriedly, and put in a word.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
2  Although Mr. Bounderby carried it off in these terms, holding the door open for the company to depart, there was a blustering sheepishness upon him, at once extremely crestfallen and superlatively absurd.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
3  "The monk hath some fair penitent to shrive to-night, that he is in such a hurry to depart," said De Bracy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  "To ease your unnecessary scruples, Sir Knight, I will for once depart from my rule," replied the hermit.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Again bowing from her palfrey, Rowena turned to depart; but pausing a moment, while Cedric, who was to attend her, was also taking his leave, she found herself unexpectedly close by the prisoner De Bracy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
6  I heard him say he was about to depart from them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  If unassailed, we depart assailing no one.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  Mellors will depart on Saturday week, and the place will soon become normal again.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  Having superadded many injunctions to be sure and not take cold, the old lady at length permitted him to depart.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  Mrs. Bumble, whose patience brooked no delay, caught up a bowl of soap-suds, and motioning him towards the door, ordered him instantly to depart, on pain of receiving the contents upon his portly person.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  With that he rose, as if to depart.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Clym, however, could make nothing of it, and he rose to depart, more in doubt than when he came.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
13  Venn was loth to depart, for all on earth that interested him lay under this roof.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
14  We had risen to depart when Baskerville gave a cry, of triumph, and diving into one of the corners of the room he drew a brown boot from under a cabinet.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
15  I had only to fix on the levers and depart then like a ghost.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
Example Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
16  The accounts department is/are having a Christmas party this week.
17  Discussions are held on an informal basis within the department.
18  The company is cutting back its spending and I wonder what the implications will be for our department.
19  Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.
20  The department made a nip here and a tuck there, but they were still way over budget.
21  The department has been shrinking year by year because of budget cuts.
22  The department was badly organized until she took charge of it.
23  The college biology department has diversified by adding new courses in biotechnology.
24  The Tokyo police department is clamping down on organized crime.
25  Every government department has its own particular culture.
26  The firm has an excellent customer service department.
27  Complaints are dealt with by the customer services department.
28  I got no satisfaction from the customer complaints department.
29  The customer services department is reassessing its procedures for handling customer complaints.
30  The department store was thronged with people.