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Example sentences for "allocate"

Lexicographically close words:
alliterations; alliterative; allmost; allness; allo; allocated; allocating; allocation; allocations; allocution
  1. It soon became apparent that British New Guinea could be divided into several artistic regions; and so it became possible to allocate to a definite district objects in museums whose exact locality was unrecorded.

  2. But this is not sufficient; it is one thing to allocate a particular pattern or group of patterns and designs to their place of origin, but quite a different matter to trace out the history or significance of the ornamentation.

  3. The Administrator shall allocate funds to directly eligible tribes in accordance with the factors applicable to allocating funds among States under section 2007.

  4. The Secretary may allocate or reallocate the functions of the Office, or discontinue the Office, in accordance with section 872(a).

  5. Small birds must allocate a greater proportion of their energy resources than larger ones to merely staying alive, and have a higher cost of living.

  6. If chances of survival are good, however, it may be more advantageous to reduce annual reproductive effort and allocate resources to other functions.

  7. The fact is that we already know why we should allocate resources to conservation.

  8. To determine the relative costs to the railroads of performing mail, passenger and freight service, we must allocate the expenses to freight and passenger service as a whole, afterwards apportioning the latter to mails and other service.

  9. We allocate a proportion of the passenger train cost to the mails on the basis of the gross ton miles handled in each class of passenger traffic.

  10. For most urban and suburban gardeners, space is too valuable to allocate 9 square feet for producing one or at best three or four ears.

  11. Spacing: Allocate 4 feet of width to a single row of carrot seed.

  12. The general success of international attempts to allocate mineral supplies during the war suggests the lines along which results might be accomplished during peace.

  13. It was found necessary in 1918 to appoint a Coal Commission under international control, to attempt to allocate and distribute supplies.

  14. How to allocate ever-scarcer resources amongst these items is a daunting - close to impossible - task.

  15. This is further exacerbated by the need to share expenses, to allocate labour and tasks, to plan ahead for contingencies, to see off threats, to hide information, to pretend and to fend off emotionally injurious behaviour.

  16. They re-allocate resources from (potentially or actually) productive agents to themselves.

  17. The speculative activity equates prices and, therefore, sends the right signals to market operators as to how and where to most efficiently allocate their resources.

  18. We may allocate with a fair amount of likelihood the following psalms to this period--iii.

  19. Their infrequency and comparative vagueness has been alleged against the accuracy of the inscriptions which allocate certain psalms to particular occasions.

  20. Railways, like the Post Office, are unable to allocate the actual working costs with any degree of precision between the various kinds of service they perform.

  21. Some will have two, some three, some a number of members; and on what system will you allocate the members to these divisions?

  22. We can allocate only one plant to that space and make sure absolutely no competition develops in that space for light, water, or nutrients.

  23. I allocate about one acre of that old pasture to garden land.

  24. After we have provided wisely for our military strength, we must judge how to allocate our remaining government resources most effectively to promote our well-being and economic growth.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allocate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    administer; align; allocate; allot; allow; appoint; apportion; appropriate; array; assign; award; commit; compose; deal; deploy; designate; destine; detail; devote; dispense; dispose; distribute; divide; dole; earmark; entrust; extend; fate; fix; give; grant; install; line; localize; locate; lot; marshal; measure; mete; navigate; ordain; parcel; pinpoint; place; portion; position; rally; range; ration; regiment; reserve; restrict; schedule; section; send; share; situate; space; spot