How to Use appropriation in a Sentence

appropriation

noun

• The economy has been weakened by the appropriation of the country's resources by corrupt officials.
• The deadline to file amendments to the DOD appropriations bill is Wednesday.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
• When the House went on recess on June 23, seven appropriations bills had been marked up.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 8 July 2023
• This stopgap bill will shift the deadlines to March 8 and March 22 to give lawmakers more time to pass full-year appropriations bills.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• Flip the record, and the A-side plays a more recognizable American tune of race and appropriation.
  — Sibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• Passing appropriation bills requires the support of 75 members of the House and 27 members of the Senate.
  — Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023
• The truth is that this musical is a piece of American culture, not of shtetl culture; any appropriation was in the making of it in the first place.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 17 May 2023
• During that time frame, Congress would work to write and pass appropriations bills at the top-line agreement between the two chambers of $1.66 billion.
  — Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
• The White House has already issued a veto threat for one appropriations bill the House passed along party line votes last Thursday.
  — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• The public's best chance to weigh in on the spending proposal will be in hearings before the House and Senate appropriations Tuesday.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2023
• But based on the assurance that the city would be paid back no matter what due to the terms of the city’s agreement with the Chaves group, 10 council members voted for the appropriation the following day.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Sperling said the request would be part of the budget proposal Biden is scheduled to make March 9 — but the bulk of it will be separate from the one-year appropriation request.
  — Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• The 12 appropriations bills that keep the government functioning for the next year are due annually at the end of September.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024
• Spending bills Congress has so far failed to enact any of the appropriations bills that fund the government, although this is not unusual.
  — Melissa Quinn, Kathryn Watson, Caroline Linton, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Fights against the appropriation of tribal cultures and images have been going on for decades — not just with the Chiefs but with multiple teams across different sports.
  — Dave Skretta, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
• Republican leaders have said the cuts would not be applied across the board - but it would be left to the appropriations process in coming years to determine what exactly is cut.
  — John Wagner and Marianna Sotomayor, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
• In a savvy maneuver, Democrats attached a modest $1 million appropriation to the bill.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Mar. 2023
• What’s brushed off as appropriation can be a more complicated and interesting story than the one that is told.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• If the House and Senate haven’t agreed on 12 appropriations laws by the start of next year, across-the-board 1 percent spending cuts are set to kick in at the end of April, which archconservatives have hoped to use to compel those policy changes.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• All that could change in the new year when 1% cuts across the board to all departments would be triggered if Congress failed to agree to new budget terms and pass the traditional appropriation bills to fund the government by springtime.
  — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 15 Nov. 2023
• For years these Native communities have protested at home and away games and have put in years of resources and sweat equity to urge the franchise to do away with Native appropriation.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
• For years, Native activists have been urging the Kansas City Chiefs to retire the team's name, the arrowhead and other signs of cultural appropriation.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• But neither the short-term funding bill nor the longer-term appropriations bills lawmakers hope to complete by March are slated to include any funding for Ukraine or Israel.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Wilson acknowledged the county doesn’t have the tools to block gondola funding because those appropriations are made at the state level.
  — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 July 2023
• For the Cliffords and other Native peoples, the appropriation of their Native beliefs and practices is nothing new.
  — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• The funding itself is to be allocated later, when Congress handles the appropriation bills, as is the normal process.
  — Time, 14 July 2023
• Two-thirds of the debt reduction in the GOP bill would come from limiting the part of the federal budget that lawmakers control through the annual appropriation bills – about 28% of spending.
  — Javier Zarracina, USA TODAY, 9 May 2023
• In the purest form, members do not want a continuing resolution, and instead want to fund the government through a series of 12 appropriations bills.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The Senate passed full-year appropriations for each of these important areas four months ago and our House colleagues have produced full-year legislation of their own.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Beyond that, the two sides likely would agree to cap the annual appropriations Congress makes for federal programs.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024