How to Use apportion in a Sentence

apportion

verb

• The proceeds from the auction will be apportioned among the descendants.
• The agency apportions water from the lake to residents.
• Apportion the expenses between the parties involved.
• In the current method to apportion to the states the 435 seats in the U.S. House, every state receives at least one seat.
  — Jeffrey W Ladewig, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2019
• Blame might be apportioned elsewhere as well, but May must take the bulk of it.
  — Noah Daponte-Smith, National Review, 31 July 2017
• The state is on the cusp of losing a U.S. House seat and the census determines how seats are apportioned.
  — Janet Adamy, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Because of the way electoral votes are apportioned, Biden would need a popular vote lead of at least 2.5% to call the race a toss-up.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
• Each school sets its own criteria for need and how the money is apportioned.
  — Cheryl Winokur Munk, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• Under the panel's plan, the sum would be placed in the Wildlife Conservation Restoration Program and apportioned to the states.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Dec. 2019
• The new division gives more to the cities, to be apportioned based on population.
  — John Sharp, AL.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• If Lynch’s carries are apportioned wisely, the Raiders should be able to keep him reasonably fresh.
  — Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
• The big question, still unanswered, is how Meta will apportion those layoffs.
  — Byjacob Carpenter, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
• But apportioning time and sticking to plans are valuable life skills kids can learn while school is canceled.
  — Nir Eyal, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• These are the places where power in America gets apportioned.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
• The app was intended to help the precinct chairs record the results from each round of voting and take care of the calculations to apportion delegates.
  — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• The trustees of the joint fund will have to decide exactly how to apportion the money, as that formula is not set down in the tentative agreement.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• The data collected are used to apportion the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  — David M. Zimmer, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
• And that's how every place, every country in the world, all the time, that has some rhyme and reason to their health care decides how to apportion their health care: what to pay for, what to give people.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 29 Sep. 2021
• The precinct-level delegates who were apportioned on the night of the caucuses will go on to county conventions in March.
  — Time, 2 Feb. 2020
• Hard to know exactly how to apportion blame/credit here.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2018
• In other words, direct taxes would have to be apportioned based on the population of each state.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
• In Palm Beach Gardens, the flexibility meant that the city may be well within its right to apportion $2.1 million to a series of projects around a new set of links.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2022
• Still, while Clinton won the state, Obama took more delegates because of the way Nevada apportions them.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2019
• Costs would be apportioned according to the size of an agency's water contract.
  — Bettina Boxall, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Back inside the pilothouse, Richards and Silver were still huddled over the chart table, struggling to apportion the task between them.
  — Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021
• Instead, the game offers a modest journal that walks you through each of the phases, apportioning slices of instruction in small bits.
  — Charles Theel, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2017
• Participants did apportion some blame to both drivers in these scenarios—but the human took more blame than the car.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2019
• So, why would they be upset about that is because the census numbers are used to apportion money, the $675 billion that goes out in federal funds to these cities.
  — Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
• This is the stage when key leadership positions are apportioned and the country’s new rulers angle for prize chunks of the executive pie.
  — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 26 Apr. 2018
• Nebraska and Maine are the only two states to apportion some electoral votes by congressional district.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024