Sentences with appropriation
ap·pro·pri·a·tion
A a - The government raised defence appropriations by 12 per cent.
- Other charges include fraud and illegal appropriation of land. [+ of]
- appropriation of property.
- So, from my point of view, it's a flicker of that rather odious post-modernist practice of appropriation, which essentially is theft.
- A large appropriation for aid to libraries.
- Musical appropriation is intrinsic to modern life.
- It need not be a vehicle for retribution, just somewhere where tales of white appropriation of black culture, not to mention outright theft.