Sample Sentences for
earmark
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earmark as in:  earmarked her bonus for a vacation

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She decided to earmark half her bonus for vacation savings.
earmark = allocate
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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.  (source)
    earmarked = saved or used
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    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)
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    And if I end up stuck in the storm and doomed to die, I'm totally eating the other earmarked meals.†  (source)
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    I thought we earmarked that for the payment.†  (source)
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    In these respects, it is perfectly familiar to Hiro: it bears the earmarks of a high-tech product that is still under development.†  (source)
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    They worked two days in the holdingpens branding and earmarking and castrating and dehorning and inoculating.†  (source)
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    The developers of the office park had earmarked the field for a lunch plaza, with four water features and a concrete bandstand for the occasional event.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    First he withdrew his annual contribution to Historic Savannah—seven thousand dollars, which he'd earmarked for the director's salary.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Only a thin trickle of food was coming into King's Landing, most of it earmarked for castle and garrison.†  (source)
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    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)
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earmark as in:  the senator earmarked the funds