How to Use approve in a Sentence

approve

verb

• The state has approved the building plans, so work on the new school can begin immediately.
• Your supervisor must approve the report before it can be sent.
• I don't care if all the other parents are letting their kids do it; I still don't approve.
• San Diego is the second city in the county to approve a blanket PLA.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• The contract failed because there was a lack of four votes needed to approve it.
  — Marc Hayot, Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2022
• The casting company does the casting and the networks approve it.
  — William Earl, Variety, 9 June 2023
• McMurtry pleaded with Mitchell to convince the others on the Village Board to approve the space.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2024
• The city council has 60 days to vote to approve the nomination.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 4 July 2024
• The owners will have to vote on what the negotiators have hammered out, and the players will have to vote to approve the deal as well.
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
• After the vote to approve, applause broke out from members of the public, who packed the meeting to speak out before the vote.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2023
• If plans for the tunnel’s next phase are approved later this fall, though, the space will likely come roaring back to life.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
• Hawaii approved a law this year to invest more in research utilizing AI tools in the health care field.
  — Bret Baier, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2024
• The town had approved a $2.3 million contract with Rivers Construction Group of Jessup to do the work.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
• The town said all permits submitted by L.L. Bean have been approved.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2024
• What the change will be depends on which of the two competing measures are approved by voters.
  — Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
• The Common Council approved the street closing in 2016.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2023
• Funds shall be expended during the year they were approved.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2024
• In France, companies say change is needed because the process to approve a work permit can take up to two years.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• The expansion on the land purchase approved by the city council will push Blue Origin to about 1 million square feet in Huntsville.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 26 May 2023
• Plus, the gel is dispensed through a no-touch applicator to avoid mess, and it's approved for use on children over two years old.
  — Sherri Gordon, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2024
• Although young babies are most at risk, the flu vaccine isn't approved for infants younger than 6 months.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 14 Nov. 2023
• The board also approved buying four diesel school buses and one electric school bus.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
• The Central Election Bureau approved the request and said scanned reports were due to be sent in by Sunday night.
  — Stephen McGrath, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
• Meanwhile, a writer can choose to use AI if a studio approves of its use, but a writer cannot be required to do so.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter naxalone product.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
• If one of these proposals succeeded, the public would vote on whether to approve it, and that could take place in August 2023.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• Hunter Biden’s agreement must still be approved by a federal judge.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
• The new drug just approved by the FDA can modestly slow down cognitive decline in patients who are in the early stages of the disease.
  — Jeremy Ney, Time, 7 Aug. 2023
• Perhaps the project will have effects on the nearby area, and the approving authority wants to think about those effects.
  — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
• However, since the general public does not have the ability to conduct the necessary background, experience and fitness checks, nor approve or reject a candidate, it is left up to the U.S. Senate to do so.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025