Sentence examples for he could appropriate from inspiring English sources

He thought he could appropriate blank categories like "Generation X" and "alternative culture" and fill them with the earnest ideals of the punk-rock subculture he came from.

He could appropriate somebody else's words verbatim when it came to voicing excitement about, say, Genesis — a group that may not have excited him at all.

Her wish: That anyone's spare time could be converted into rollover minutes that she could appropriate (but frequent flyer miles will do).

Arab dictators also sometimes gravitated to Shakespeare's works because they could appropriate them for anti-Semitic purposes.

Participants were often given incentives, such as money or food, and some were even told they could appropriate the land of the Tutsis they killed.

The campaign did not call the Call in advance to see if Mr. Gore could appropriate the tune, but Michael Been, the composer, has said in published reports that he has no objection.

"So people like John Adams, for instance, could appropriate bits of it and use them as a device when needed.

With his profound knowledge of Greek literature and despite his almost total ignorance of Hebrew he tried to find a way in which Judaism could appropriate Hellenic thought.

It may seem odd that a Jewish boy could appropriate an anti-Semitic novelist for his own, but great literature has strange, identity-bending powers.

I don't know too many other theater artists who could appropriate, with dash and conviction, TLC, 40s girl groups and Gilbert and Sullivan.

If one were looking for a precedent it would be The Threepenny Opera which showed that low life could appropriate high art.