Sentence examples for appropriating for from inspiring English sources

The male-dominated English choral tradition has been highly effective in appropriating for itself music originally intended for other vocal resources.

She'd take a detail of a work by Raphael -- someone's foot, say -- enlarge it and paint it on a 12- by 14-foot canvas, appropriating for herself the idea of largeness that others had attached to her as a label.

It's this era that fashion designers are appropriating for next spring's clothes, with vintage 70's tennis staples like Fila tops, terry-cloth track suits and visors all coming out of retirement.

Mr Cunningham submits that Whitman's life-long work is America's "national anthem", appropriating for his own the poet's themes that there "are no insignificant lives" and that all matter, living and dead, is connected".In the Machine" follows a 13-year-old immigrant's son, a cog in the wheel of the industrial revolution.

Are we then to infer, then, that Enwezor is fomenting class war and suggesting that visitors to his biennale, instead of swarming through Venice's Giardini in search of art, swarm instead to the barricades, possibly boarding and appropriating for the proletariat the super-yachts of the collector-billionaires?

Appropriate for all ages.

Is this appropriate for children?

But he needed clothing appropriate for interviews.

It was appropriate for his approach.

Was Singapore appropriate for a naval base?

They may not be appropriate for everyone.