How to Use donation in a Sentence

donation

noun
  • We are grateful for the donation of whatever you can afford to give.
  • The organization is funded by private donations.
  • The zoo is holding a donation contest to vote for the calf’s name.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For a donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the ‘empty bowls’ in the world.
    — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Chinchilla Café usually gives 100% of the donations at the door to the bands that play there.
    — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • The church would give these boxes of donations to the poor the day after Christmas.
    — Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Cull your children’s clothes and toys for donation, or send hand-me-downs to a friend.
    — Nicole Anzia, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And near the end, be ready to make a donation to the Marion County Food Bank.
    — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The $1 billion donation is part of a fundraising drive that the college launched last year.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
  • The top donation amounts were not disclosed by the fundraiser or the campaign.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
  • Lutz was supposed to meet her dad for Father's Day, Slate wrote on the donation page.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • This donation is the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The fee is a donation to the ASID chapter; the designer donates their time.
    — Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
  • One of their twins came from Clark's donation, while the other is from his partner's.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • The league runs with the help of donations, volunteers and the city's parks department.
    — Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Any user who makes a donation (even $1) can track all 58 counties in the state.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Allen said that most of the donation now will be refunded.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • The donation was the single biggest gift to the capital campaign for the project.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2022
  • That person also would have to note where the donation ended up and how it was used.
    — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Of this total, $38 million is a donation to the Amazon Fund.
    — David Biller, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The donation will allow the city to put the project out for bid and potentially break ground in summer 2026.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The food bank relies heavily on donations, most of which are not fresh foods due to their short shelf life.
    — Kate Marijolovic, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Her family has asked for donations to go to Not An Easy Fix.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The largest donation, $5,000, was to the Beau Biden Foundation, which works to protect children from abuse.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • One in three people were repeat donors on the site, and the average donation amount throughout the year was $77.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The event is free and donations are encouraged, according to the Eventbrite page.
    — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The suggested donation is $14 per tree and $8 per wreath.
    — oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The best defense against this type of scam, Roundy said, is to not try to make a donation through a link in an email, text or social media post.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The agency negotiated that $10 million of the $67 million would be a donation to the Hope Florida Foundation.
    — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Dye said the group typically makes two donations a year to local organizations.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025

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