part with

VERB
  1. give up what is not strictly needed
    he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
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How To Use part with In A Sentence

  • They're often highly prized works that people are loath to part with. Times, Sunday Times
  • Inevitably, though, with 14 fewer rooms to spread out in, the Pages had to part with several cherished possessions.
  • Hi-tech babble from tech whiz-kids will not make an entrepreneur part with a single euro if the entrepreneur is not convinced of the financial return.
  • Look at Arizona, a state torn apart with a needless immigration "debate;" needless insomuch as it exists now. Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose
  • But want o’ siller it canna be — he pays ower the shillings as if they were sclate stanes, and that’s no the way that folk part with their siller when there’s but little on’t — I ken weel eneugh how a customer looks that’s near the grund of the purse. — Saint Ronan's Well
  • But, the thermals are for the most part within the acceptable boundaries of good taste.
  • Still, the injunction may have been given in view of the character of the individual Pharisees before him, who may have been known as avaricious men; and Christ may have known that to part with their money would be a test of love which they could not stand. The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
  • I besought Sir Charles, that he would not be pre-vailed upon to take part with them, if she continued averse to a change of condition. Sir Charles Grandison
  • I don't want to part with you.
  • Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes. In Praise of Folly
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