How to Use allocate in a Sentence

allocate

verb

• Money from the sale of the house was allocated to each of the children.
• Have enough funds been allocated to finance the project?
• We need to determine the best way to allocate our resources.
• And then that will give us a number of how much per child to allocate.
  — al, 24 Aug. 2022
• How the funds will be allocated will be discussed by the board at the meeting.
  — Colleen Wright, miamiherald, 12 July 2018
• The evening is allocated to the soothing of an anxious dog.
  — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 4 July 2017
• And what about the money that’s been allocated to work on this?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 22 Aug. 2018
• The count is used to allocate funds to federal programs.
  — Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• Alario said the state should bank the surplus for a while before deciding how to allocate it.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Where the rest of the budget will be allocated has not yet been determined.
  — Sonja Peteranderl, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2018
• The size of the budget obscures the amount Breed may allocate at her discretion.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
• Some of these shifts occurred by the thinnest of margins under the formula used to allocate seats.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2021
• The funds will be allocated at the end of June, officials said.
  — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
• Three days of finals are allocated at the end of each semester.
  — Daily Pilot, 27 Aug. 2019
• The board also does not have the authority to allocate state funding to schools, so there was no check to cover the costs.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
• But for a long time, Congress did not allocate money for the new courthouse.
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The agency will allocate the drug to hospitals during that time.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 30 June 2020
• After that there is no other funding allocated for the project.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
• What happened to all of the dollars just allocated for transportation?
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2019
• Dead money is salary cap space a team must allocate to a particular player who has been cut.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2023
• If the fund is created, council could allocate more money to it as needed.
  — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022
• The Aurora area's school districts allocate funds to purchase new books to give away to each child during the event.
  — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Apr. 2018
• But any concrete decisions on how to allocate the funds are likely months down the road, even though the city first received funds months ago.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021
• Nabhan said the center will allocate funds to two main projects: a mental wellness program and a youth program.
  — Slone Terranella, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2020
• The city is using the consulting firm Raftelis to help with deciding where to allocate the funds.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021
• The Cudahy clinic finds out each week how many the state can allocate to them, Puente said.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
• The institute has said the government didn’t allocate it enough funding to set up more polling stations.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
• Buffett did not allocate the funds towards any specific project but left it up to his children.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 9 July 2022
• Bishop said the district could allocate the new money in many different ways.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2018
• That would allow the team to allocate a roster spot for depth at another position.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, baltimoresun.com, 4 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024