VERB
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administer or bestow, as in small portions
dole out some money
the machine dispenses soft drinks
administer critical remarks to everyone present
deal a blow to someone
shell out pocket money for the children
How To Use parcel out In A Sentence
- The concern is not with the way scientists and geographers parcel out land in manageable pieces, although this is where the contentiousness surrounding bioregionalism resides.
- In Chicago, Murphy calls blistering press conferences to parcel out the blame. A One-Man Children's Crusade
- The borders were chosen by European colonials trying to parcel out territories; little consideration was given to the natural borders formed by the ethnic groups, which were then split by the new lines.
- God has spoken from his sanctuary: 'In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.
- For the sentence rounds itself out by rounding back on its own predicating ontological nomination: "But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive" — as if those last crimped syllabic units themselves were attempting to parcel out and quantify it, before giving up. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian