Sentence examples for appropriated it from inspiring English sources

The word may lose its novelty so that those who appropriated it stop saying or using it, but the word won't disappear or lose its utility in the black community.

Instead the company monitored "the Kinect effect" — and appropriated it.

Children instantly appropriated it as a playground, and adults used it as an informal seating area.

Now, though, it seems that players at this Rugby World Cup have appropriated it for themselves.

Perhaps she appropriated it from a black boyfriend; the pose has a vaguely postcoital quality.

The landlord had appropriated it in lieu of the rent, which was many weeks overdue.

Appropriating it and then neutering it.

Fiction doesn't appropriate, it creates.

Before he can spend money, Congress must appropriate it.

"Industrial process has fascinated me since I first read about Warhol's silkscreen printing process and how he re-appropriated it to make fine art," he says.

Are these investments still appropriate?" it said.