How to Use appropriation in a Sentence

appropriation

noun

• The economy has been weakened by the appropriation of the country's resources by corrupt officials.
• But the money still needs to be included in an appropriation measure before it can be doled out.
  — Keith Laing, Bloomberg.com, 16 Feb. 2022
• Read why the drink has raised cultural appropriation questions.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
• But, yes, there is definitely that risk of cultural appropriation.
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2022
• Late last year, an official claim was filed accusing Keane of trademark infringement and brand appropriation.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
• What is the line between some of the aspects of Indian weddings becoming exported and appropriation?
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2022
• The commission received a $3.1 million appropriation for the current fiscal year.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2022
• The accusations of cultural appropriation directed her way are not truly strident, though.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
• The deadline to file amendments to the DOD appropriations bill is Wednesday.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
• The appropriation of funds should have a return on investment attached to the use of funds.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• How come we're not held accountable to have – to have the appropriation bills done at a certain time before the end of the fiscal year?
  — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
• The bill now awaits a vote in the appropriations committee.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
• And one of the big debates that goes on now, in the United States, is about what’s called cultural appropriation.
  — al, 13 Mar. 2022
• Evoking jazz’s riffs and hip-hop’s sampling, Basquiat used self-appropriation, in the form of Xerox, in his works.
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2022
• When the House went on recess on June 23, seven appropriations bills had been marked up.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 8 July 2023
• This stopgap bill will shift the deadlines to March 8 and March 22 to give lawmakers more time to pass full-year appropriations bills.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• Flip the record, and the A-side plays a more recognizable American tune of race and appropriation.
  — Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• Passing appropriation bills requires the support of 75 members of the House and 27 members of the Senate.
  — Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023
• The chamber labored to get to a final vote just hours before the midnight deadline for the first set of appropriations bills.
  — Kevin Freking, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
• The truth is that this musical is a piece of American culture, not of shtetl culture; any appropriation was in the making of it in the first place.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 17 May 2023
• That’s why the issue of cultural appropriation rings false for so many of us.
  — Chelsey Luger, SELF, 30 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, Knittle will have far less money to distribute this winter, though the appropriation hasn’t been set yet.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
• During that time frame, Congress would work to write and pass appropriations bills at the top-line agreement between the two chambers of $1.66 billion.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
• The White House has already issued a veto threat for one appropriations bill the House passed along party line votes last Thursday.
  — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• If the Senate can get its act together and pass its appropriations bills, the House is primed to get ran over on big-time priorities.
  — Justin Green, Axios, 22 Sep. 2024
• The dress did not raise flags for cultural appropriation at the time, but today, the response may be different.
  — Indya Brown, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
• The public's best chance to weigh in on the spending proposal will be in hearings before the House and Senate appropriations Tuesday.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2023
• But based on the assurance that the city would be paid back no matter what due to the terms of the city’s agreement with the Chaves group, 10 council members voted for the appropriation the following day.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• An appropriations hearing for the bill is scheduled to take place Thursday.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
• The July appropriation reimbursed the general fund for salaries and benefits paid from March 16 of last year to June 4 of this year.
  — Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024