How to Use allocate in a Sentence

allocate

verb

• Money from the sale of the house was allocated to each of the children.
• Have enough funds been allocated to finance the project?
• We need to determine the best way to allocate our resources.
• And then that will give us a number of how much per child to allocate.
  — al, 24 Aug. 2022
• How the funds will be allocated will be discussed by the board at the meeting.
  — Colleen Wright, miamiherald, 12 July 2018
• And what about the money that’s been allocated to work on this?
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 22 Aug. 2018
• Keep in mind that about $5 million of that must be allocated to sign the draft class.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
• The evening is allocated to the soothing of an anxious dog.
  — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 4 July 2017
• The bill would allocate $50 million to provide a pay bump.
  — Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
• The size of the budget obscures the amount Breed may allocate at her discretion.
  — Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 31 July 2020
• Here’s how the draft bill would allocate the remainder of the $580 million.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 18 Jan. 2022
• The funds will be allocated at the end of June, officials said.
  — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017
• Alario said the state should bank the surplus for a while before deciding how to allocate it.
  — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• The Cudahy clinic finds out each week how many the state can allocate to them, Puente said.
  — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2022
• But for a long time, Congress did not allocate money for the new courthouse.
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2022
• The count is used to allocate funds to federal programs.
  — Miriam Jordan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• Where the rest of the budget will be allocated has not yet been determined.
  — Sonja Peteranderl, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2018
• Banks that run debt sales for governments tend to allocate less than 10% of an issuance to hedge funds.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 10 May 2021
• And a big part of that budget this year is allocating enough funds for filling their gas tanks.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• Some of these shifts occurred by the thinnest of margins under the formula used to allocate seats.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2021
• The board also does not have the authority to allocate state funding to schools, so there was no check to cover the costs.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
• Three seats are allocated to each of the city’s three voting districts (Districts A, B and C).
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The Aurora area's school districts allocate funds to purchase new books to give away to each child during the event.
  — Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 29 Apr. 2018
• The city is using the consulting firm Raftelis to help with deciding where to allocate the funds.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021
• As a thank you to their respective fan bases, the artists are not allocating VIP tickets on tour.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
• The bill also allocated funding to counter the flow of fentanyl into the country.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024
• With the federal grant, the state has about $8 million allocated so far.
  — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Yet, year after year, Congress failed to allocate cash to meet the medical need.
  — USA Today, 21 Oct. 2020
• At the same time, investment in social housing has declined, with most regions allocating less than 0.5% of GDP.
  — Anacláudia Rossbach, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
• Washington has allocated $12 million to fight the invaders, Oregon encourages crabbers to harvest up to 35 of them a day.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025