Sample Sentences for
appropriate
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(editor-reviewed)

appropriate as in:  it is appropriate

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These clothes aren't appropriate for work.
appropriate = suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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    The movie is not appropriate for young children.
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    We disagree about what is appropriate.
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    Her behavior was inappropriate.
    inappropriate = not suitable (not right for a particular situation)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    But McDonald's has a rule that employees have to wear appropriate footwear at all times.  (source)
    appropriate = suitable (fitting) for the situation
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    IOI's patented customer courtesy software had detected the inappropriate nature of my response and muted it, so the customer didn't hear what I'd said.  (source)
    inappropriate = improper
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    "How'd she look?" inquired Little Man, interested enough to glance up from the road for the first time. T.J. looked around grimly and whispered, "Like . . . death." He waited a moment for his words to be appropriately shocking, but the effect was spoiled by Little Man, who asked lightly, "What does death look like?"  (source)
    appropriately = in a manner fitting for the situation
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    How inappropriately hormonal can one boy be?  (source)
    inappropriately = improperly
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriately means not and reverses the meaning of appropriately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It was the appropriateness that could have stood in my way.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    His apparel was striking in its inappropriateness to the rough life of the plains.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriateness means not and reverses the meaning of appropriateness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts than amid the unappropriate environment of the Collector's office.  (source)
    unappropriate = not suitable (not fitting)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. But this is exceedingly rare. Typically inappropriate is used instead.
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    "But that's not appropriate at all," Charles said crossly.  (source)
    appropriate = proper
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    I'm afraid you're going to think this very inappropriate.  (source)
    inappropriate = improper (not suitable for the situation)
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    Eusie had given him the Hebrew name Maher Shalal Hashbaz, meaning appropriately enough, "hastening to the spoils, hurrying to the prey."  (source)
    appropriately = in a manner that fits the situation
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appropriate as in:  appropriate from their culture

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    She appropriated my idea as her own.
    appropriated = took
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    She appropriated my coffee as she ran to the meeting.
    appropriated = took without asking
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    She wears a long woolen coat, no doubt something the girls have appropriated from the Canada with no objection from the SS.  (source)
    appropriated = taken
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    But his house was large enough that she could have appropriated an entire wing for herself if she wanted it.  (source)
    appropriated = taken
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    To be more precise: You have told us at last your secret, in your words, so 'disgraceful,' though in reality—that is, of course, comparatively speaking—this action, that is, the appropriation of three thousand roubles belonging to some one else, and, of course, only for a time is, in my view at least, only an act of the greatest recklessness and not so disgraceful, when one takes into consideration your character….  (source)
    appropriation = taking
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    In exactly the same way, Germany shifted the borders of the European countries it had subdued, appropriating province after province;  (source)
    appropriating = taking (seizing)
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    In practice this means that she appropriates the MEAT LIKE YOU LIKE IT sign and incorporates it into one of her constructions,  (source)
    appropriates = takes without asking
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    As we glided nearer, the stranger showed French colours from his peak; and by the eddying cloud of vulture sea-fowl that circled, and hovered, and swooped around him, it was plain that the whale alongside must be what the fishermen call a blasted whale, that is, a whale that has died unmolested on the sea, and so floated an unappropriated corpse.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappropriated means not and reverses the meaning of appropriated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    To do him justice, however, he did not resolve to appropriate it; for remembering that there was some very good ranting-ground in Frederick, he professed an equal willingness for that.  (source)
    appropriate = take
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    It must be observed that, among other appropriations from his master's stock, Adolph was in the habit of adopting his name and address;  (source)
    appropriations = things taken
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    He knew very well that he was the proprietor or appropriator of the money, which, according to all proper calculation, ought to have fallen to his younger brother, and he had, we may be sure, some secret pangs of remorse within him, which warned him that he ought to perform some act of justice, or, let us say, compensation, towards these disappointed relations.†  (source)
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    As the Peacekeepers fell, weapons were appropriated for the rebels.  (source)
    appropriated = taken
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    The last chance for an officer to enrich her house through connections to new citizens, or even through outright appropriation.†  (source)
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appropriate as in:  Congress will appropriate funds

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    Congress appropriated additional funds for airport improvement.
    appropriated = set aside
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    Money is appropriated for a two-year budget cycle during odd-numbered years.
    appropriated = set aside for particular purposes
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    Appropriations for Sardaukar training went down steadily in the final thirty years before the Arrakis Revolt.  (source)
    Appropriations = budget
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    He set up a government within the government-by moving the decimal points in appropriations and salaries, sending his speechless enemies to tiny towns in Calabria, and rewarding sycophants with sinecures.  (source)
    appropriations = budgeted amounts
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them.  (source)
    appropriated = assigned
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    The deacon board, however, did appropriate funds for him to buy a new suit.  (source)
    appropriate = provide
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    granting an annual appropriation of two thousand dollars.  (source)
    appropriation = designation (setting aside for a special purpose)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Although the British Constitution doesn't have a term limit for appropriating supplies to the army, in practice the parliament has limited it to one year.  (source)
    appropriating = designating (for a particular use)
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    Grimmer had to run an understaffed and underfunded institution and try to keep the whole thing together with spit, baling wire, and nickle-and-dime appropriations from a state legislature who had to go back and face the voters.  (source)
    appropriations = budget
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    In early spring Bennington finally chose a contractor to come to Yamacraw to install the air conditioners for which the board of education had appropriated money the previous summer.  (source)
    appropriated = budgeted (assigned for a particular use)
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    If the majority party wants to appropriate more money than seems proper to support the military for two years, the community will be warned and be able to take measures to guard against it.  (source)
    appropriate = allocate (budget for a particular use)
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    A peacetime military ban tries to do too much and will not be obeyed; a two-year appropriation provides for emergencies and will be a powerful remedy.  (source)
    appropriation = designation of funds (budgeted for a particular use)
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    In a single year, Burton watched his grant appropriations jump from $6,000 a year to $300,000.  (source)
    appropriations = money approved to spend
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