parceling

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

People are living longer, spending more on themselves and parceling out their riches in smaller doses to children and grandchildren.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The insurance department, in turn, has encouraged companies to ask for all the rate increases they need at once, rather than parceling out requests over time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Inside the Weggs’ yellow colonial, on five acres north of Indianapolis, Rodney had been parceling out limited information.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2021

Narrative agency is what interests the author, her manner of parceling out information evoking at times the fragmentary and diaristic sensibilities of Jenny Offill’s “Dept. of Speculation.”

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2020

Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver