Sentence examples for to earmark from inspiring English sources
verb
To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
A congressman has the power to "earmark" funds for a specific project.
I kept looking up things on my iPhone, and forgetting to earmark my page.
A long-standing concern for the environment led me to earmark $600 for Greenpeace.
WASHINGTON — President Bush often denounces the propensity of Congress to earmark money for pet projects.
However, the pledge by world leaders to earmark $1.1 trillion toward resolving the crisis is misleading.
But it is still hard for Oxygen executives to earmark "Xena" as the network's raison d'être.
Parliament has not helped by refusing to pass a budget to earmark millions of dollars for the Awakening Councils.
In both instances, tax increases passed at the ballot box, but plans to earmark the money for housing foundered.
Banks have been ordered to earmark 29% of their total loans for farming and housing, at subsidised rates.
The government is to earmark £10 million to mark the UK's most historic events, Culture Secretary Maria Miller has said.
Granted, the effect of the stronger dollar and the decision to earmark some businesses for sale explain the decline.
