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.
  • Here’s who else got papal dispensation this week in late night.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 May 2025
  • Their old dispensation – their old gods no longer satisfied them.
    — Gordon Pennertz, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • There will be griping about the new dispensation, of course, some of it defensible.
    — Eamon Lynch, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
  • If so, then a special dispensation should be made for Barnes and the 10-year career rule.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • To not probate the estate and not pay the taxes shouldn’t be a reason for special dispensation.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 July 2019
  • There’s also a special loan for physicians that gives dispensation for student loans.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 17 Feb. 2017
  • Here, where perhaps someday a memorial will stand, the old dispensation died.
    — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The couple received special dispensation from the bishop to get married on that day.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2021
  • In some cases, clubs can write to the league and ask for special dispensation if a certain regulation cannot be met.
    — Dan Sheldon, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But the annual awards were granted special dispensation to go on, without a script.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2023
  • 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
  • The crux is that there’s something decidedly off-putting about the dispensation of effort.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Lee was freed as part of a mass dispensation of pardons issued by Yoon in 2022.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Yes, the emerging dispensation has room for a few Rogan-level leading lights.
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Khan’s supporters – some armed with sticks and stones – marched through cities, chanting slogans against the ruling dispensation.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The dispensation ends on March 13, the Archdiocese said last week.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Should there be an appetite for a new treaty, all 27 member states would have to agree to give the Netherlands special dispensation.
    — Molly Quell and Raf Casert, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Churches that embrace it, which tend to be evangelical, believe that the current dispensation is coming to an end.
    — Shalom Goldman, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 was Neymar’s dispensation to skip practice with Barcelona on Wednesday.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • But as the first group ages further, the older dispensation will become more and more of a niche in its own right, a small constellation in the larger, weirder panoply.
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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