How to Use expropriate in a Sentence

expropriate

verb

• In the 1980s, the Japanese government expropriated Ainu land along the Saru to build two dams: Kayano took the government to court.
  — Jude Isabella, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2017
• Rather than expropriating the wealthy, low-income voters in several swing states helped put a billionaire in the White House who then slashed taxes on the rich.
  — Daniel Treisman, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Large foundations expropriated the wealth of the Pahlavis and tens of thousands of affluent Iranians to provide the poor with housing and health care.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht and, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
• As a last resort, Germany could expropriate such firms, according to the revised law.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
• Each new nation-state meant a new claim of popular sovereignty, empowering the many to expropriate the property of the few.
  — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2019
• Today’s ‘human rights’ as formulated by the U.N. include the sacred right of a state to expropriate a power plant.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2018
• The city of Athens claimed the land using its power of eminent domain — that is, the right of a government to expropriate private property for public use.
  — Eric Stirgus, ajc, 29 Oct. 2021
• Her best friend, Reva, speaks in self-help bromides while expropriating her wine and designer wardrobe.
  — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 10 May 2018
• In 2017, Austria’s highest court ruled that the government was within its rights to expropriate the building after its owners refused to sell it.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2020
• The law is one of the raft of ways that Palestinian lands are unfairly expropriated, Palestinians and their supporters say.
  — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020
• Omar Marrero, the ports director in Puerto Rico, said the government had a right to expropriate shipments.
  — Richard Fausset, Michael D. Shear, Ron Nixon and Frances Robles, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• To be white in antebellum America, for instance, was to be able to enslave Africans and expropriate native land.
  — Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• The campaign is a throwback to the leftist party’s first time in office in the 1980s, when the Sandinistas expropriated homes, setting off yearslong legal disputes.
  — Frances Robles, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, Prymachenko’s iconic style was much imitated, with many paying tribute and some seeking to expropriate it.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• In November, El Salvador adopted a new law that will allow government to expropriate land for public use.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2022
• Back in 1954, after Hurricane Hazel flooded homes in the valley, the city expropriated a bunch of land and turned it into a linear park meandering through the city, with tens of miles of bike trails and gravel paths running alongside the river.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 June 2018
• But even as some Cuban families whose properties were expropriated are still waiting for compensation, many of those items have been turning up for sale abroad.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, miamiherald, 3 May 2018
• Further, given the size of national debts, Piketty strongly advises countries to expropriate some of the one percents’ wealth, in addition to its income.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Dec. 2017
• Despite the court ruling four years ago, the Resmi Gazete – which publishes laws and official announcements – said in 2016 the government would expropriate land in the mountains where the Konaktepe dam was going to be built.
  — Fariba Nawa, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2018
• But during his campaign, he's been doubling down on the same failing policies, taking over the country’s largest private bank, Banesco, forcing companies to slash prices and expropriating others.
  — Jim Wyss and Antonio Maria Delgado, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
• Still, there’s little precedent for a .com domain being expropriated by a country.
  — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 30 Apr. 2018
• The Jerusalem municipality plans to tax some church assets for a first time, and cabinet ministers are studying a bill to expropriate land in Jerusalem that churches sold in recent years to anonymous buyers.
  — David Wainer, Bloomberg.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• The country will move ahead with expropriating land without compensation, Ramaphosa said.
  — Michael Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• Ironically, the family's home in Windsor was expropriated and demolished to make room for it.
  — Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2018
• Short of tax revenues, local governments treat land as free money, expropriating it cheaply and then selling it at inflated prices.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• In response, Venezuela expropriated the assets of both companies.
  — Ben Hubbard, Dionne Searcey and Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2016
• This Act enables the government to expropriate 95 percent of the revenues (not profits) from the sale of any drug where a manufacturer does not negotiate in good faith as determined by the government.
  — Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• The villagers accuse Israel of expropriating their lands in favor of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish.
  — Ruth Eglash, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2017
• This will allow Caiso to override utility contracts and expropriate power destined for other states.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 July 2021
• The following year President Ollanta Humala signed a law allowing the government to expropriate land for the airport.
  — Colleen Connolly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024