How to Use allotment in a Sentence

allotment

noun

• More than half of the meager allotment was used to pay his train fare.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2023
• But the time allotment was more than enough for Hauser.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• My allotment of eclipses is over and done, finished, just like my chance to ride that kid’s horse.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• By the end of March, the district had spent $74 million of its $94 million allotment.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• The 2,300-member tribe had pushed for more than a decade to secure the allotment from the Colorado River.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2023
• The state hopes to use at least 70% of the weekly federal allotment.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
• This marks the fifth straight week with a significant jump in the state’s allotment.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The share allotment is likely to take place on Nov. 15, with the listing scheduled for Nov. 18.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
• Stevens said Brown was pretty fresh and would be able to play a full allotment of minutes.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2021
• This marks the 10th straight week with a significant jump in the state’s allotment.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• The new allotments will be in effect until Sept. 30 of next year.
  — Avery Lotz, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
• The county plans to use the system for its next vaccine allotment and hopes to have the phone lines up and running as well.
  — Nicole Wetsman, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2021
• Most teams have already spent most of their pool allotment this year.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• States’ allotments from BEAD are expected to be announced at the end of this month.
  — Kavish Harjai, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
• The bank's profits dropped 42% from a year ago, due in part to the larger allotment to credit reserves.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2022
• For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
• On all three plans, hotspot speeds are slowed to a maximum of 128 kbps once customers use the allotment.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
• Less than a minute had expired from their 10-minute allotment.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
• But Dallas ISD has asked, for example, for the allotment to be bumped up to at least $200.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The Buffs sold out their spring game in April and have sold out their season ticket allotment for the first time in nearly three decades.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• So, how do first-timers distinguish themselves from the pack to land a piece from this allotment?
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2022
• The allotment was announced by the Food and Nutrition Service in June.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023
• Between the lines: Maine Republicans aren't in any rush to join the push to change the state's allotment system.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
• Word had spread quickly and the allotment for Tuesday had already been snatched up.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• The market is based on a points system, and clients each get a certain allotment based on their household size.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2023
• In testing, streaming a YouTube playlist used up a whole day’s allotment of bandwidth in less than a quarter of an hour.
  — PCMAG, 6 May 2024
• Teams are allowed to exceed the allotment for picks by 5% before paying a 75% fine on the overage.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
• The site opened on Feb. 3 and administered its 500 vaccine allotment on the same day.
  — Brayden Garcia, Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2021
• But there may be more at play than just a (potentially) unequal allotment of resources.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 9 Feb. 2025
• Making matters worse for Northwest and other school districts, the state did not increase the basic funding allotment per student.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Mar 2025