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.
  • The appropriation moves those payments to the ARPA fund, freeing up like amounts in the general fund for use by the city.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The appropriation still hasn’t happened, and that can still be done.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2021
  • The deadline to file amendments to the DOD appropriations bill is Wednesday.
    — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Lawmakers also have to fund the government for the rest of the year, start the appropriations process for next year and raise the debt ceiling.
    — Stephen Neukam, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The House failed to pass a long-term appropriations bill, and the short-term funding bill did not address the direct-file tax program.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The House failed to pass a long-term appropriations bill, and the short-term funding bill did not address the direct-file tax program.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • A year ago, $135 million was earmarked for the project and is just the first appropriation that would be needed to finance the new courthouse.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 17 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The appropriations bill will advance to the Senate floor, but it's not yet scheduled.
    — Worth Sparkman, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • In its fourth try, the Senate approved the appropriation.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2021
  • New York argued that the appropriation was law; it was passed by Congress over Nixon’s veto.
    — Tom Campbell, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The board pumps more than 300 million gallons of groundwater a year from the course, in excess of state water appropriation laws.
    — Susan Du, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • Beyond fragile White men and their appropriation of Camelot and codpieces, Medieval Remix has been the soundtrack for our times.
    — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The arena complex isn’t the only project seeking state backing through appropriation bonds.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Germain emphasized that while fraud in the program was rare, the layoffs left states with no federal oversight, raising questions about how funds will be managed when the current appropriation expires in September.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025

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