Sentence examples for a part of a thing from inspiring English sources

Roughly speaking, synecdoche (sin-EK-d'kee) is when a part of a thing stands for the whole ("nice wheels"), or the whole for a part ("the hospital did what it could").

That is, if y is a part of a definable thing x, then the definition of x will include as a part something z that corresponds to y.

Both things and portions of stuff can have parts, but any part of a thing is itself a thing, and any part of a portion of stuff is itself a portion of stuff.

(2) Quality is a noun describing "a characteristic or feature that someone or something has; something that can be noticed as a part of a person or thing".

I wasn't a part of a lot of things that others get to be.

In some cases both a thing and (a part of) a medium between us and the thing are seen.

How strange it is to be back in this place, where visible distance is so much a part of things that things acquire a kind of space, an otherness, a nowhere-ness, as if even the single scrub cedar outside the window where I'm working holds in its precise little limbs, its assertive seasonless green the fact of its absence.

They want to be a part of a team that can change things, part of a team that can win".

I just want to be a part of a collaborative process and making things that we all believe in.

"Getting acquired and becoming a part of a studio is not the worst thing that could happen".

No, you have to still be a part of a winning combination, so all those things have to be taken into account".