How to Use allocate in a Sentence

allocate

verb
Definition of allocatenext
Synonyms for allocatenext
  • Money from the sale of the house was allocated to each of the children.
  • Have enough funds been allocated to finance the project?
  • We need to determine the best way to allocate our resources.
  • And then that will give us a number of how much per child to allocate.
    — al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • How the funds will be allocated will be discussed by the board at the meeting.
    — Colleen Wright, miamiherald, 12 July 2018
  • And what about the money that’s been allocated to work on this?
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 22 Aug. 2018
  • The evening is allocated to the soothing of an anxious dog.
    — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 4 July 2017
  • The bill would allocate $50 million to provide a pay bump.
    — Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The size of the budget obscures the amount Breed may allocate at her discretion.
    — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
  • Here’s how the draft bill would allocate the remainder of the $580 million.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The funds will be allocated at the end of June, officials said.
    — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
  • Alario said the state should bank the surplus for a while before deciding how to allocate it.
    — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The Cudahy clinic finds out each week how many the state can allocate to them, Puente said.
    — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
  • But for a long time, Congress did not allocate money for the new courthouse.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The count is used to allocate funds to federal programs.
    — Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
  • Where the rest of the budget will be allocated has not yet been determined.
    — Sonja Peteranderl, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2018
  • Banks that run debt sales for governments tend to allocate less than 10% of an issuance to hedge funds.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 10 May 2021
  • Some of these shifts occurred by the thinnest of margins under the formula used to allocate seats.
    — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The board also does not have the authority to allocate state funding to schools, so there was no check to cover the costs.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Three seats are allocated to each of the city’s three voting districts (Districts A, B and C).
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The Aurora area's school districts allocate funds to purchase new books to give away to each child during the event.
    — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The city is using the consulting firm Raftelis to help with deciding where to allocate the funds.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The bill also allocated funding to counter the flow of fentanyl into the country.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024
  • With the federal grant, the state has about $8 million allocated so far.
    — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Yet, year after year, Congress failed to allocate cash to meet the medical need.
    — USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Congress sent about $2.8 billion this year to the site, with about $1.7 billion allocated to cleaning up the tanks.
    — Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Three days of finals are allocated at the end of each semester.
    — Daily Pilot, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Members serve three-year terms, and three seats are allocated to each of the city’s three voting districts (Districts A, B and C).
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The government had allocated 1.3 million kwanzas for the group, but that had not yet been paid.
    — John Eligon Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • My question is: What is the right amount to allocate to discretionary/fun spending?
    — Michelle Singletary, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2018

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