How to Use allowance in a Sentence

allowance

noun

• Each of their children gets a weekly allowance of five dollars.
• They performed poorly, but allowances should be made for their inexperience.
• This way, you won't be tempted to go over your allowance.
  — Abigail Bailey, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2023
• The tabloid also said the king plans to ax his younger brother’s royal allowance.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• Charles spends all day on the phone, with only a six-minute daily allowance to use the bathroom.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• One problem: Congress hasn’t raised the allowance in decades.
  — Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Would a monthly allowance ensure the money wasn’t spent all at once?
  — Amber Ferguson, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• That allowance for noise is what makes our result testable in practice.
  — Marc-Olivier Renou, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
• Twilio The company used to give workers an allowance to spend on wellness and books.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2023
• Instead, try allotting up to a fifth of your daily calorie allowance to the sweet of your choice.
  — Kristine Thomason, Health, 2 Nov. 2023
• All funds in these accounts come from our monthly allowances drawn from our joint account.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
• The decade-old program, which allows large emitters to buy allowances from the state to pollute and trade them with other companies, is one of the largest in the world.
  — Sophie Austin, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Pets need to stay inside the carrier for the entire flight, and the kennel counts toward your carry-on allowance.
  — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Jan. 2023
• Using a ¼-inch seam allowance on your sewing machine, sew the pieces together at each corner as shown with the red lines in the diagram.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• There is a small living allowance for those who qualify.
  — Melissa Klurman, Parents, 18 Jan. 2024
• Some of them will give you a ballpark quote, with allowances for price increases based on certain factors.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Then, in 1971, the Indian government cut off the nizam’s allowance and abolished the royal court’s titles.
  — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• Russell, who had been going to her Phoenix clinic six days a week prior to Covid, did get an increase in her take-home allowance, but nowhere near 28 days.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 Dec. 2022
• Moreover, those in the military either live on base or use a housing allowance that isn’t taxable.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
• Tahoe Sunrise returned to Del Mar Friday and won a second-level allowance race.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• At age 8, asking kids to choose how to budget their allowance might be a solid activity.
  — Philipp Hecker, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The benefit also comes with a housing allowance for students studying at least half time.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• The petition is mainly seeking to block the allowance of sports betting on a mobile app in the state off of tribal territory.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
• The universal child allowance would enroll all children at birth so no child would be excluded.
  — Michael W. Howard, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2023
• Free carbon allowances for EU steel producers are being phased out as the carbon border tax on imports is phased in.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• His mother, who kept meticulous records of the family’s finances, would cut him company checks in lieu of an allowance.
  — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 11 May 2023
• The other local sales tax chance is the allowance of Milwaukee County to levy an additional 0.4% sales tax on top of the existing 0.5% sales tax in the county.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2023
• The baggage weight allowance on United depends on a passenger's fare class and MileagePlus status.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2024
• On Wednesday, his attorneys filed a motion to modify his bail down to $100, reflecting the boy’s savings from gifts and his allowance.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
• Players will receive a similar cash allowance later in the season.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024