How to Use allot in a Sentence

allot

verb

• The newspaper will allot a full page to each of the three mayoral candidates.
• Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes.
• That means one mile of desolate country road is allotted the same maintenance money as an eight-lane interchange.
  — Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2024
• There was no cap of tickets allotted to either school and Johnson is expecting a lot of support from the Mission Viejo fans.
  — Michael Huntley, Orange County Register, 3 Oct. 2024
• But would the conflict breach the two Y.M.C.A. lanes allotted to the team?
  — Miriam Jordan Afif Amireh, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• It has been allotted three hours for many years, though the length of the 2025 show has not been announced.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2024
• It has been allotted three hours for many years, though the length of the 2025 show has not been announced.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2024
• The studio will have allotted drop-off times or set up a drop box for the items that need to be fired.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2020
• Even Wyoming allotted three-and-a-half times more money, the study found.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
• The bustier’s stitching allotted a bit of depth and detail to the clean-cut look.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 13 Feb. 2024
• The gardens were beautiful and many took a tram ride to try and see as much of the gardens in the time allotted.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2023
• The Allahabad high court in 1935 had allotted the legal right over the land on which the mosque stands to the Hindu king of Varanasi.
  — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 9 Nov. 2019
• Spending of the money allotted for the fund has dropped in recent years as well.
  — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
• As one poster from the era explained it, people over 12 were allotted 2½ pounds of beef, veal, lamb and pork a week.
  — NBC News, 1 May 2020
• The new approach would allot them to applicants who earn the highest wages.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
• Picks 5 through 14 will then be allotted in reverse order of the teams’ records.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• Instead, try allotting up to a fifth of your daily calorie allowance to the sweet of your choice.
  — Kristine Thomason, Health, 2 Nov. 2023
• In this context, a speech expands or contracts to fit the time allotted.
  — Readers, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
• The seven-minute film asks what kind of place society should allot to the most painful or shameful parts of its past.
  — Güzin Kar, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021
• The company that recorded the book allotted me 100 hours in front of the microphone.
  — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• Still to be revealed in addition to the name of the Boston team is how the 18 players will be allotted among all six teams.
  — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
• It’s as simple as allotting a certain amount of time away from your phone.
  — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 17 July 2019
• The means and the budget Moscow has allotted for its dark ambitions in Ukraine are stretched thin.
  — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2023
• The reps that will be scrutinized the most in camp, however, will be those allotted to Daniels.
  — Nicki Jhabvala, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• This year, Cox signed a bill that would allot $40 million towards efforts to save the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
  — Kim Bojórquez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
• And a lot more panic than progress in the first months of the three years allotted for the job to be finished by the time the sanctuary opened on Easter Sunday 2017.
  — Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• This year, the state plans to allot just over $18 million to local districts to put on summer learning camps.
  — al, 13 Jan. 2022
• My draft is invariably too long, and cutting it to the 150 words I’m allotted can be taxing.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
• And the Kansas cancellation did at least allot the Longhorns more time to both prepare for Iowa State and heal up.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• If a recipient’s SSN ends in zero, payments will be allotted on the 10th of the month.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024