APPROPRIATION in a Sentence

Learn APPROPRIATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
92 example sentences for APPROPRIATION, such as:
1. It might be appropriate for him to attend the course.
2. It would not be appropriate for me to discuss that now.
3. A dirty face is not appropriate for the school photograph.
4. Its two slopes have been appropriated for the monumental hillock.
5. Ensure that your diagrams contain the appropriate level of detail.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of APPROPRIATION
appropriation
 n.  money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose
 n.  incorporation by joining or uniting
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Nor was this appropriation of any parcel of land, by improving it, any prejudice to any other man, since there was still enough, and as good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  This request the Legislature had complied with to the extent of granting an annual appropriation of two thousand dollars.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII.
3  After the complete moral collapse which had sent her to Atlanta and to Rhett, the appropriation of her sister's betrothed seemed a minor affair and one not to be bothered with at this time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  Its two slopes have been appropriated for the monumental hillock.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
5  The interior of the barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight horror, the deck of a disabled ship.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
6  Bonacieux was acquainted with all the turnings and windings of this part of the Louvre, appropriated for the people of the household.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
7  The room communicated, on one side, with her father and mother's apartment; on the other, with that appropriated to Miss Ophelia.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Long after dusk, the whole weary train, with their baskets on their heads, defiled up to the building appropriated to the storing and weighing the cotton.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  Lord Ravenshaw and the duke had appropriated the only two characters worth playing before I reached Ecclesford; and though Lord Ravenshaw offered to resign his to me, it was impossible to take it, you know.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  He that is nourished by the acorns he picked up under an oak, or the apples he gathered from the trees in the wood, has certainly appropriated them to himself.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Probably no one but a soldier would have answered such a call promptly; and, indeed, no one but a soldier could be called, for Congress had appropriated no money for salaries and expenses.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
13  At this moment two women entered, bringing salvers filled with ices and sherbet, which they placed on two small tables appropriated to that purpose.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 77. Haidee.
14  I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
15  Many of them appropriated several houses, chalked their names on them, and quarreled and even fought with other companies for them.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The government made an appropriation of a billion for the new project.
2  This has the advantage that the cases referred to will be brought within the single concept of dishonest appropriation.
3  The appropriation from the central budget totaled 725.3 billion yuan, an increase of 21.8 percent over the previous year.
4  The government has appropriated a large sum of money for building hospitals.
5  I see that the director has appropriated the best office to his own use.
6  The book was written in a style appropriate to the age of the children.
7  Details of the problem will be logged by the Help Desk staff who will then contact the appropriate agency.
8  It might be appropriate for him to attend the course.
9  The furniture strikes a traditional note which is appropriate to its Edwardian setting.
10  Without someone to turn to for advice, making the most appropriate choice can be difficult.
11  The lawyer should ascertain the reasons why the client chose your firm and send an acknowledgement to recommending sources, if appropriate.
12  Further, it may even be appropriate to debate again whether consent is appropriate as the governing concept in the medical-legal context.
13  Ensure that your diagrams contain the appropriate level of detail.
14  It would not be appropriate for me to discuss that now.
15  A dirty face is not appropriate for the school photograph.