How to Use dispensation in a Sentence

dispensation

noun

• The priest asked for dispensation from his vows.
• The state gave the town a special dispensation, allowing it to ignore the law in this case.
• The concept is predicated on the idea that the dispensation of justice is mechanical and objective.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
• For those who don’t, hoping to win the favor of the NCAA and get some sort of dispensation is a skinny limb to stand on.
  — Jon Blau and Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2020
• Guests at Valentino had to present a special dispensation card to simply get in to the area.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 7 Mar. 2022
• These are the outposts of truth under the Nixon dispensation.
  — Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
• The dispensation ends on March 13, the Archdiocese said last week.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2021
• The team gets a special NCAA dispensation to schedule an extra game due to the lengthy travel for road games.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
• This revving, frisky 45 is a logbook containing the codes and call signs of the postwar dispensation.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• But the armed forces of Ukraine did not need special dispensation to defend the airport where the Russian planes were headed.
  — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
• To not probate the estate and not pay the taxes shouldn’t be a reason for special dispensation.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 July 2019
• The war started as the season of lent started, Kushnir said, though the church gives a dispensation for lent, a time of fasting, during times of war.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022
• There will be griping about the new dispensation, of course, some of it defensible.
  — Eamon Lynch, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
• Part of the reason this party was such a hit was because of the special St. Patrick’s Day alcohol dispensation.
  — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• This could include the ability to have a small snack or a dispensation not to have to climb a ladder later in pregnancy.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2020
• Allen Vigneron ended on March 13 the dispensation for Catholics to attend Mass in person.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2021
• Trustee Russ Smith asked the chief if residents could get special dispensation to turn down their street in either direction any time of the day.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
• The dispensation was announced in a joint statement from the bishops of the Province of Indianapolis.
  — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• Sprouse said the City Council still will determine the dispensation of some property owned by Bethel Heights.
  — Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2020
• The couple received special dispensation from the bishop to get married on that day.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2021
• The crux is that there’s something decidedly off-putting about the dispensation of effort.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2021
• The dispensations have sparked questions in recent days.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• Anyone not in on this debt-point dispensation and reception is the wrong kind of white person — Donald Trump and those who voted for him, for instance.
  — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
• Of course, the next global war saw a similar strain of sympathy for the ruling dispensation in Germany.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
• Khan’s supporters – some armed with sticks and stones – marched through cities, chanting slogans against the ruling dispensation.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
• But the annual awards were granted special dispensation to go on, without a script.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2023
• There was Neymar’s dispensation to skip practice with Barcelona on Wednesday.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
• The European Broadcasting Union, which oversees the contest, gave him special dispensation and his sister stood in for him during the first week of run-throughs.
  — William Lee Adams, Billboard, 14 May 2017
• This dispensation helps drive the trade winds westward the better to feed the monsoon as the intertropical convergence zone sweeps north over India.
  — The Economist, 27 June 2019
• The general election on July 4th is shaping up to be an enormous change in Britain’s ruling dispensation.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024