How to Use parcel out in a Sentence

parcel out

verb
  • That’s the backstory parceled out over the course of the movie.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Each week, the coaches parceled out a few plays based off that week’s matchup, then built on it each week.
    — Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Figuring out how and when to parcel out the information was a painstaking process.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The $15 billion is being parceled out among various a16z funds.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The catching assignments are parceled out carefully to ensure each catcher works with each pitcher once or twice, at the very least in the bullpen.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Anticipated is a trilogy of major design upgrades for the iPhone parceled out over the next three years.
    — Pueng Vongs, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • All of this means Anthropic is creating something akin to investing superpowers whose wisdom will be parceled out by humans.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • It’s parceled out in glass dishes overflowing with fudge sauce, served in waffle cones clutched like a prize by vacationers with sand between their toes, or rummaged with a sneaky spoon from the freezer in the middle of the night.
    — Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The show’s pace at first is a test of patience—Task parcels out its details, lingering on shots of the birds Tom watches through binoculars, and the endless green of the Pennsylvania woods.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The complex structure necessitated the producers parcelling out creative and technical roles based on each country’s contribution.
    — Marcus Lim, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Although about $288 million, as well as a collection of international properties, were to be parceled out — what remains of Epstein's estate is far from enough to fulfill that plan.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Most parties guard any information about yachts under build like top-secret information until the boat is finally unveiled years later, even then information is parceled out to the public at the owner’s discretion.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Generally, a hospital’s administration parcels out inpatient beds, and emergency department boarding is in many ways a result of today’s business models and pressures.
    — Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Republicans gerrymandered Athens-Clarke to include one strongly Democratic district, parceling out the rest of the county into three seats intended to be Republican.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • So begins Kate MacIntosh’s delightful historical novel that parcels out wit and wisdom from widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot in 1805.
    — Staff, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025
  • If blame is to be parceled out beyond King, numerous neighbors would place it on institutions, ranging from their own HOA, to police, to City Hall, to Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas.
    — Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That merely meant coach Brian Dutcher didn’t have to delicately parcel out playing time while massaging egos on his Mariana Trench-deep roster, and the bench shortened by circumstance delivered a 77-45 win powered by a pair of true freshmen and a typically frenetic defensive effort.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That spurred Notre Dame to leave the group, followed by a steady exodus by the conferences, which led to the system that is in place today in which all the leagues parcel out their own media rights, mostly to ESPN, CBS, Fox and NBC.
    — Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026

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