How to Use apportion in a Sentence

apportion

verb
  • The proceeds from the auction will be apportioned among the descendants.
  • The agency apportions water from the lake to residents.
  • Apportion the expenses between the parties involved.
  • In the current method to apportion to the states the 435 seats in the U.S. House, every state receives at least one seat.
    Jeffrey W Ladewig, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Blame might be apportioned elsewhere as well, but May must take the bulk of it.
    Noah Daponte-Smith, National Review, 31 July 2017
  • The state is on the cusp of losing a U.S. House seat and the census determines how seats are apportioned.
    Janet Adamy, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Because of the way electoral votes are apportioned, Biden would need a popular vote lead of at least 2.5% to call the race a toss-up.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
  • Each school sets its own criteria for need and how the money is apportioned.
    Cheryl Winokur Munk, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
  • While blame is apportioned out — in the courts or elsewhere — fashion is still working out what comes next.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 2 Apr. 2025
  • At the Pink Pony Club, everyone will be apportioned one pair of bright-white plastic buck teeth and a tube of super glue.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Under the panel's plan, the sum would be placed in the Wildlife Conservation Restoration Program and apportioned to the states.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The new division gives more to the cities, to be apportioned based on population.
    John Sharp, AL.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Rubio has apportioned the blame for the recent misery in the region to Iran's leadership.
    Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • If Lynch’s carries are apportioned wisely, the Raiders should be able to keep him reasonably fresh.
    Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The big question, still unanswered, is how Meta will apportion those layoffs.
    Byjacob Carpenter, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But apportioning time and sticking to plans are valuable life skills kids can learn while school is canceled.
    Nir Eyal, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • These are the places where power in America gets apportioned.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The app was intended to help the precinct chairs record the results from each round of voting and take care of the calculations to apportion delegates.
    Robert McMillan, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The trustees of the joint fund will have to decide exactly how to apportion the money, as that formula is not set down in the tentative agreement.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The data collected are used to apportion the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives.
    David M. Zimmer, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And that's how every place, every country in the world, all the time, that has some rhyme and reason to their health care decides how to apportion their health care: what to pay for, what to give people.
    Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The precinct-level delegates who were apportioned on the night of the caucuses will go on to county conventions in March.
    Time, 2 Feb. 2020
  • Hard to know exactly how to apportion blame/credit here.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2018
  • In other words, direct taxes would have to be apportioned based on the population of each state.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In Palm Beach Gardens, the flexibility meant that the city may be well within its right to apportion $2.1 million to a series of projects around a new set of links.
    Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Still, while Clinton won the state, Obama took more delegates because of the way Nevada apportions them.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Costs would be apportioned according to the size of an agency's water contract.
    Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Back inside the pilothouse, Richards and Silver were still huddled over the chart table, struggling to apportion the task between them.
    Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021
  • By breaking out of one customer’s isolated VM environment, a threat actor could take control of the hypervisor that apportions each VM.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The Trump administration is facing pressure to restore a public website that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies and that lawmakers on both sides say is required by law.
    Aris Folley, The Hill, 12 May 2025

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