parceling

Example Sentences

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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

But the league is also parceling off more rights and three of the next seven Stanley Cup Finals to a secondary bidder.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 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

A dark night was falling, one of a different order from the soft, large, kind ones of childhood under the anacahuita tree, Pap£ parceling out futures and Mama fussing at his drinking.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez