Sentence examples for to appropriating from inspiring English sources
verb
To make suitable; to suit.
In practice, this requirement often translated to encouraging the students to take a "guerilla" approach to appropriating space in the city.
In addition to appropriating some Shakespearean gender-bending, "She Stoops to Comedy" takes its plot from "The Guardsman" (1910) by Ferenc Molnar.
The World Bank is increasing support, and the United States Congress is close to appropriating about $2 billion, more than half of it for treatment.
Prototype, the new action-adventure game from Activision, has almost no shame when it comes to appropriating (or ripping off) the trove of comic-book clichés and tossing them, kitchen-sink style, at the player.
But the Republicans used a procedural maneuver Wednesday to force the collective bargaining measure through: they removed elements of Governor Walker's bill that were technically related to appropriating funds, thus lifting a requirement that 20 senators be present for a vote.
It's just that some artists are better than others when it comes to appropriating the past and incorporating it into their own work.
Allow me to appropriate this tired cliche.
Congress is expected to appropriate about $2 billion this year.
On Jan . 9 the Town Council voted unanimously to appropriate the money.
A "yes" is a vote to appropriate the money.
And maybe other people want to appropriate those.
