How to Use appraisal in a Sentence

appraisal

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  • I made a quick appraisal of the situation and decided to leave right away.
  • The book is an excellent appraisal of the influences that have shaped our government.
  • Learn how to protest both the appraisal and the tax rate.
    — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The time is ripe, then, for a more clear-eyed appraisal.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • See which historic pieces got some of the biggest appraisals on the show.
    — Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2024
  • For the new appraisal, the couple had a White friend pretend to be the home's owner.
    — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
  • When the Rembert canvas appraisal was filmed, both the expert and the owner cried.
    — Nicole Kagan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • The check was signed, an UberX ordered, an appraisal made: faultless.
    — Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • All those who win tickets must bring at least one item for appraisal but no more than two.
    — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The idea, in essence: grab stuff before it’s gone and let posterity sweat the appraisals.
    — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The appraisals will affect 2024 property tax bills that go out later in the year.
    — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Aging accelerates the urge, and maybe the need, for appraisal.
    — WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Even if the seller accepts your offer, there is the perilous appraisal process.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Next up was a move for a first appraisal on a tract that could expand Historic Blakeley State Park by 81.5 acres.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Proud of: Franklin, Hawkins and I worked on [banning] real estate appraisal bias.
    — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • What's been lost in the iconography is a thoughtful appraisal of Mays, the human being.
    — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2022
  • An initial three-year term calls for a $2,000 annual lease fee, though that could change once the group completes an appraisal of the land.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • The long-running series, which sees owners bring in items for appraisal, premiered on PBS in 1997.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Performance appraisals that may lead to dismissal are a scary prospect.
    — Bogdan Costea, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • An assessment of the value of the house, known as an appraisal, is not required to determine the selling price.
    — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Get the Car Appraised Nothing specifies the value of a car quite like a private appraisal can.
    — Jim Slavik, Car and Driver, 8 June 2023
  • Now, the organization is trying to emerge from the other side of that appraisal.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The partners would initially survey land and complete the appraisal, Smith said.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • The Senate is pushing for increasing the state’s homestead exemption, while the House wants to lower the appraisal cap.
    — Molly Smith, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2023
  • In 2020, the man died and a Utah accounting firm trying to liquidate the property sought an appraisal for the painting.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In my appraisal district, the numbers given are not easy to understand.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The appraisal district’s board is set to hold an emergency meeting on Monday.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The Garden Club decided to get an appraisal on the more expensive-looking items.
    — AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The fact that the dyngja was a space men shunned weighs heavily in Hayeur Smith's appraisal of women's power in cloth-making.
    — Francine Russo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Some families also had White friends stand in for them during the appraisal to get a higher value.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022

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