How to Use allotment in a Sentence

allotment

noun

• More than half of the meager allotment was used to pay his train fare.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2023
• My allotment of eclipses is over and done, finished, just like my chance to ride that kid’s horse.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• By the end of March, the district had spent $74 million of its $94 million allotment.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
• The 2,300-member tribe had pushed for more than a decade to secure the allotment from the Colorado River.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2023
• States’ allotments from BEAD are expected to be announced at the end of this month.
  — Kavish Harjai, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2023
• For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
• But Dallas ISD has asked, for example, for the allotment to be bumped up to at least $200.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The Buffs sold out their spring game in April and have sold out their season ticket allotment for the first time in nearly three decades.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• The allotment was announced by the Food and Nutrition Service in June.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023
• Word had spread quickly and the allotment for Tuesday had already been snatched up.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• The market is based on a points system, and clients each get a certain allotment based on their household size.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2023
• Teams are allowed to exceed the allotment for picks by 5% before paying a 75% fine on the overage.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
• The robust welcome offer from FanDuel is one of the largest bonus bet allotment in the country.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
• Their most specific request is a boost to the basic allotment, which is the amount of money schools get for each child who attends.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 1 May 2023
• The new garden will include a collection of allotments for people to have their own space to learn and grow their own produce.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023
• Auburn will return the same payout to Cal and the same ticket allotments for next year’s game at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 8 Sep. 2023
• Call it a cash reward for being an investor—each allotment is often paid out as small amounts per share.
  — Wes Moss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Rent at my allotment site is a modest hundred pounds a year (and outside London the fees are often much lower).
  — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
• The following veggies and legumes are higher in carbs, which means eating them could push you over your carb allotment for the day and take you out of ketosis.
  — Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
• Should the three states fail to reach an accord, the Bureau of Reclamation is empowered to withhold the entire allotment.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• The emergency allotments reduced poverty by 10% and child poverty by 14% in their states, according to the study.
  — Nakylah Carter, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2023
• With Larkin no longer involved in the case, his attorney's allotment of the duties for the trial would have to be divided up among the remaining lawyers.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• And there are all these stories about the allotment of condoms and cardboard beds that are designed to break if the lovemaking is too vigorous?
  — Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
• Those two types of berries are the highest in fiber and the easiest way for women, specifically, to get their daily allotment.
  — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
• The Dolphins used their allotment of three practice-squad elevations on Cracraft in the first three weeks of the regular season.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• The rim was repaired by the end of the halftime clock allotment, so the game was only delayed about five extra minutes to allow the returning players a chance to warm up.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022
• The family has ranched cattle in the state for more than 150 years as part of a program that issues grazing permits on allotments of public land.
  — Mark Scaglione, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• As the lights came up, guests streamed out into the crisp November night clutching posies of roses grown on the Hoppen family allotment.
  — Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 30 Nov. 2022
• The full allotment of this weekend’s showtimes will be available for purchase at the box office at all AMC locations.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2023
• But in the months that followed, their delegations were first restored to half of their original allotment, and then to full strength by the time the convention arrived.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024