How to Use allocate in a Sentence

allocate

verb

• Money from the sale of the house was allocated to each of the children.
• Have enough funds been allocated to finance the project?
• We need to determine the best way to allocate our resources.
• Each state’s lottery commission gets to determine where to allocate its earnings.
  — Anisha Kohli, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• In some instances, they were told to organize events but weren’t allocated a sufficient budget.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 18 Oct. 2024
• The funding will also be allocated to support its central merchandise business, which is a core revenue stream for the upstart league.
  — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 23 Oct. 2024
• Settlers have held key positions in cultural institutions and in bodies that allocate land.
  — Tia Goldenberg, ajc, 24 Oct. 2022
• Given vouchers, parents will allocate capital to schools that provide the best education for their children.
  — WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• And then that will give us a number of how much per child to allocate.
  — al, 24 Aug. 2022
• How the funds will be allocated will be discussed by the board at the meeting.
  — Colleen Wright, miamiherald, 12 July 2018
• And what about the money that’s been allocated to work on this?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 22 Aug. 2018
• Keep in mind that about $5 million of that must be allocated to sign the draft class.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
• The evening is allocated to the soothing of an anxious dog.
  — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 4 July 2017
• The bill would allocate $50 million to provide a pay bump.
  — Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
• The size of the budget obscures the amount Breed may allocate at her discretion.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
• Here’s how the draft bill would allocate the remainder of the $580 million.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 18 Jan. 2022
• The funds will be allocated at the end of June, officials said.
  — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
• Alario said the state should bank the surplus for a while before deciding how to allocate it.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The Cudahy clinic finds out each week how many the state can allocate to them, Puente said.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
• But for a long time, Congress did not allocate money for the new courthouse.
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The count is used to allocate funds to federal programs.
  — Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• Where the rest of the budget will be allocated has not yet been determined.
  — Sonja Peteranderl, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2018
• Banks that run debt sales for governments tend to allocate less than 10% of an issuance to hedge funds.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 10 May 2021
• And a big part of that budget this year is allocating enough funds for filling their gas tanks.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• Some of these shifts occurred by the thinnest of margins under the formula used to allocate seats.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2021
• The board also does not have the authority to allocate state funding to schools, so there was no check to cover the costs.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
• Three seats are allocated to each of the city’s three voting districts (Districts A, B and C).
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The Aurora area's school districts allocate funds to purchase new books to give away to each child during the event.
  — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Apr. 2018
• The city is using the consulting firm Raftelis to help with deciding where to allocate the funds.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021
• As a thank you to their respective fan bases, the artists are not allocating VIP tickets on tour.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024