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Example sentences for "apportion"

Lexicographically close words:
appointment; appointments; appoints; apporte; apporter; apportioned; apportioning; apportionment; apportionments; apportions
  1. When you arrive there, I will apportion the contents among us according to our several claims.

  2. They had glittered in great embassies with clever secretaries at their elbow, and had once governed Ireland when to govern Ireland was only to apportion the public plunder to a corrupt senate.

  3. They have been ordered to assess their group with a certain total weight of human substance, and to apportion to each individual in their group the lighter or heavier portion he must provide.

  4. He thinks that the educated can show more of that sense than the uneducated; but he does not therefore lay down any rule about reading, writing, and arithmetic, or apportion votes to learning.

  5. He thinks that property amounting to a thousand pounds will show more of that sense than property amounting to a hundred; but he will not, on that account, go to work and apportion votes to wealth.

  6. With us it is, I believe, thought that a man should certainly not apportion more than a seventh of his spending income to his house rent--some say not more than a tenth.

  7. Allotment by agreement is the only possible method, unless the United States Courts are clothed with the authority to apportion the lands among the citizen Indians for whose use it was originally granted.

  8. I recommend that the Congress at its present session apportion representation among the several States as provided by the Constitution.

  9. The words might be read, 'I will apportion to Him the many, and He shall apportion to Himself the strong ones.

  10. I shall be delighted to carry it to them, and apportion it equitably according to their several degrees of relationship.

  11. This, as far as I can apportion it without weights and scales, is your share, my uncle!

  12. And his district would be so extensive that, if he chose to apportion it to each of his followers, he would have enough to provide for all, without any person being neglected.

  13. The fact is not in dispute, but the difficulty arises when we come to apportion the blame between ignorance on the part of the people and a somewhat one-sided religious zeal on the part of large numbers of their clergy.

  14. The third rule is to apportion your purchases to your income and the divisions of your budget.

  15. Not being compelled to apportion the strength of supports to the weight which they have to carry, it is always inclined to elongate forms.

  16. The supervisors apportion the number (three hundred,) among the several towns in the county in proportion to population.

  17. Apportion the school moneys among the several districts in the county.

  18. The committee, after fixing the boundaries, were to apportion such income as they might think proper relative to the duties of the future incumbents, but within certain limitations.

  19. They shall apportion it in such manner that superfluous and useless expenses shall not be caused.

  20. Now, amongst his many peculiarities, one was the belief that no man in Ireland knew how to apportion the various kinds of tobacco like himself, and Bob's mixture was a celebrated snuff of the time.

  21. The fundamental use that money serves is to apportion incomes of goods so as to make them yield the maximum gratification.

  22. A communistic or socialistic state would have to take account of this difference, else the whole social economy would be irrational and there would be no principle by which to apportion in time the productive forces of the community.

  23. Whenever any repartimientos of Indians become vacant in the said islands, you shall apportion some of the Indians to my crown, as an aid toward the said pay.

  24. P: Is it they who apportion thy Lord's mercy?


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apportion" 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; apportion; appropriate; array; assign; award; carve; compose; cooperate; count; cut; deal; decrease; designate; dispense; dispose; distribute; district; divide; dole; fix; give; halve; increase; line; lot; marshal; measure; mete; number; parcel; part; partition; place; portion; rally; range; rate; ration; reduce; regiment; section; segment; share; slice; space; split; subdivide