How do you use the word "part" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "part": I am proud to be a part of this project. You do your part and I'll do the rest.

Part Meaning

/pɑːt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA portion; a component.

nounA portion; a component., A fraction of a whole.

Sentence Examples

I am proud to be a part of this project.

You do your part and I'll do the rest.

We spent part of the time in the museum.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

break piece start

Antonyms:

wholly

CEFR Practice Quiz

The crowd standing nearby will ____ to let the ambulance pass through quickly.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She played a key ____ in negotiating the peace agreement between the two rival factions.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to Latin portiō (“a portion, part”), parāre (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slifan (“to split”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all." — 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

"America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short." — 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

"It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone." — 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

"[…] the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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