Sentence examples for appropriate her from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, I was humiliated, as deeply as only a child can be, to be caught trying to appropriate her present.

Almost 5,000 years in age, she is astonishingly contemporary in appearance yet remarkably remote: we cannot appropriate her dreams, or fathom how she worshiped.

Ideologies have caught up with her and tried to swallow her up and appropriate her, but she has always shaken herself free and moved on.

Georgia Eisner, his older sister, recalled how, years before he took over the backyard, he would appropriate her possessions as material for his art while she was away at boarding school.

The fact that a large debt owed by Matthias to Báthory was canceled by her family in exchange for permitting them to manage her captivity suggests that the acts attributed to her were politically motivated slander that allowed relatives to appropriate her lands.

With this dedication to art, she began to plan how she could appropriate her developing skills with Arduino, robotics, and kinetics to be "a better artist".

The Feminist Press has just reprinted her 1963 novel, "By Cécile," about a woman who appropriates her husband's mistress.

After Schulman saw "Rent" in Off Broadway previews, she became convinced that its writer, Jonathan Larson, had knowingly appropriated her material.

She says the toy wrongfully appropriates her name and persona, harms her professional credibility as a journalist and is an insult.

She said, for example, he has appropriated her theory of "compassionate conservatism" -- it's a theme he has pounded on the campaign trail -- and that positively rankles her.

So it was both canny and somewhat reckless when the British-born playwright Stephen Temperley appropriated her story for "Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins" in 2004.