APPROVAL in a Sentence

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284 example sentences for APPROVAL, such as:
1. The audience has expressed its approval.
2. The scheme did not meet unqualified approval.
3. The audience showed its approval by cheering loudly.
4. She desperately wanted to win her father's approval.
5. Count Ilya Rostov smiled blandly and nodded approval.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of APPROVAL
approval
 n.  acceptance as satisfactory
 n.  a feeling of liking something or someone good
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  What matters is the fact that, under different circumstances, their approval could have been taken as a foregone conclusion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
2  The material met with the customer's approval, a price was agreed upon, and with incredible celerity the vendor made up the purchase into a brown-paper parcel, and stowed it away in Chichikov's koliaska.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
3  After serving three terms I was decorated with the Vladimir of the third class with the approval of the government.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
4  he concluded, drinking a tumbler of wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
5  They'll ransack that castle, he remarked with evident approval.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
6  Prince Bagration bowed his head in sign of assent and approval.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII
7  He too approached that group and listened with a kindly smile and nods of approval, as he always did, to what the speaker was saying.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
8  Count Ilya Rostov smiled blandly and nodded approval.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
9  At these words Alpatych nodded as if in approval, and not wishing to hear more went to the door of the room opposite the innkeeper's, where he had left his purchases.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
10  On such feelings, more or less dimly shared by all, the unanimity and general approval were founded with which, despite court influences, the popular choice of Kutuzov as commander-in-chief was received.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVI
11  In spite of the obscurity of the soldier's words Pierre understood what he wanted to say and nodded approval.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
12  But when our artillery or cavalry advanced or some of our infantry were seen to move forward, words of approval were heard on all sides.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI
13  Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French uhlans appeared from round the corner.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
14  Malvintseva expressed approval, and the governor's wife began to speak of Rostov in Mary's presence, praising him and telling how he had blushed when Princess Mary's name was mentioned.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI
15  Pierre did not in any way seek her approval, he merely studied her with interest.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  The chairman has also given his approval for an investigation into the case.
2  Although the plan received unanimous approval, this does not mean that it represents the lowest common denominator.
3  The audience showed its approval by cheering loudly.
4  The audience has expressed its approval.
5  Any alterations had to meet the approval of the local planning authority.
6  The promise of some basic working rights draws murmurs of approval.
7  She desperately wanted to win her father's approval.
8  The developers submitted building plans to the council for approval.
9  I got it on seventeen days approval, so if you don't like it we can change it.
10  Despite his great commercial success he still yearns for critical approval.
11  This task force could examine the broader question of what types of projects should require voter approval.
12  After looking at the calendar and getting approval from doctors, they agreed to induce labor of daughter Lauren.
13  Local authorities should submit schemes to the relevant minister for approval.
14  The scheme did not meet unqualified approval.
15  The article is ready to publish, subject to your approval.