earmarkin a sentence
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About a quarter of one's salary had to be earmarked for voluntary subscriptions, which were so numerous that it was difficult to keep track of them.
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earmarked = saved or used
- First he withdrew his annual contribution to Historic Savannah—seven thousand dollars, which he'd earmarked for the director's salary.† (source)
- I thought we earmarked that for the payment.† (source)
- He'd snared a summer job at the Martha Graham library, going through old books and earmarking them for destruction while deciding which should remain on earth in digital form, but he lost this post halfway through its term because he couldn't bear to throw anything out.† (source)
- And if I end up stuck in the storm and doomed to die, I'm totally eating the other earmarked meals.† (source)
- In a couple of cases he had, in effect, paid their tuition, by giving money to a school fund earmarked for scholarships for those who couldn't afford tuition.† (source)
- To make sure these properties were constant throughout the park, Burnham had his chief engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, test locations earmarked for other buildings.† (source)
- In these respects, it is perfectly familiar to Hiro: it bears the earmarks of a high-tech product that is still under development.† (source)
- He reportedly earned $160,000 for his appearance in the sixty-second spot, money earmarked for his nonprofit foundation.† (source)
- Perhaps I wanted to auction them off, with the proceeds earmarked for specific organizations or universities?† (source)
- Every year, the government awarded European scholarships, each one earmarked for a certain needed profession, and if you won one and were poor, you accepted for the chance to eat three meals a day, one of them hot.† (source)
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- They worked two days in the holdingpens branding and earmarking and castrating and dehorning and inoculating.† (source)
- And it was obvious that most of the money that reached this altitude was earmarked for the army, to finance its costly standoff with Indian forces along the Siachen Glacier.† (source)
- He'll be quoting Scripture; he probably has some passages already earmarked.† (source)
- The book had been earmarked to the Gospel of Thomas.† (source)
- She became famous when, in anticipation of her own death, she gave her life savings to the local university as an endowment for scholarships earmarked for poor students.† (source)
- We've taken two articles earmarked for the issue after this one and we're going to fill the gaps with freelance material.† (source)
- That would carry over onto the field throughout this season, which at the moment was beginning to have all the earmarks of being very special.† (source)
- Only a thin trickle of food was coming into King's Landing, most of it earmarked for castle and garrison.† (source)
- She might have to take them on a train, and she couldn't ride on a train with her clothing torn, it was one of the earmarks of the fugitive.† (source)
- I'd take all the money we're sending to the Middle East, where we're trying to pay people to be our friends, and divert it to Canada and earmark it to help raise ducks.† (source)
- Authority would call it rebellion and warship would orbit with bombs earmarked for L-City and Hong Kong and Tycho Under and Churchill and Novylen, troops would land, grain barges would lift, under guard—and farmers would break necks to cooperate.† (source)
- Helen has earmarked the broth and bouillon for Dan until he's better; and the candy for the children.† (source)
- Part was earmarked for the bank to finance the next big phase of her long-term program.† (source)
- He had never before spent a needless penny, since all money had been earmarked for his bookstore.† (source)
- He earmarked a million dollars for the museum.
- Ingela Oskarsson, who did the bookkeeping two days a week, had no responsibility for the budget and was not at all helpful when it came to making decisions about how much a freelancer should be paid or whether they could afford to buy a new laser printer that was not already included in the sum earmarked for capital investments or IT upgrades.† (source)
- The gunmen guarding the bridge lived up a valley nearby and claimed that a contractor from the government in distant lowland Islamabad arrived with millions of rupees earmarked to widen their game trails into logging roads, so these men could sell their timber.† (source)
- Dallas's defenses cracked on next salvo; Mike gave their spaceport three more (already committed) then shifted back to Cheyenne Mountain—later ones had never been nudged and were still earmarked "Cheyenne Mountain.† (source)
- Berger proposed, and it was agreed, that 1 million be set aside as a fund against future crises; that 250,000 kronor be reserved for capital investments, such as new computers and other equipment, and repairs at the editorial offices; and that 300,000 kronor be earmarked for salary increases and to allow them to offer Cortez a full-time contract.† (source)
- The major criterion left untested is one we cannot test here; that undefinable something which is the difference between a leader in battle …. and one who merely has the earmarks but not the vocation.† (source)
- This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.† (source)
- He was helpful and dependable when they needed assistance with their lessons; he had a sharp wit and could ruin any child by the apt nickname he coined, the kind that hurt; he drew devastating cartoons on fences; he had all the earmarks of a sissy, but somehow he could not be classified as one; he had too much self-assurance and quiet, disturbingly wise contempt for everybody.† (source)
- Why, he had all the earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emendations of your grammar and punctuation.† (source)
- When amounts are earmarked for specific purposes, we can't really operate."† (source)
- I paused, recalling Uncle Lambert's voracious appetite for knowledge, and that cheerfully objective cynicism that regarded all religion merely as one of the earmarks by which a culture could be cataloged.† (source)
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