How to Use apropos of in a Sentence
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Styling is apropos of its fierce performance: the car seems to lean forward in the stance of a pit bull poised to pounce.
—Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Dec. 2022
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This test would have been more apropos of a Final Four, or better yet, a championship game.
—Dom Amore, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2021
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Gizelle up and asks Candiace at the table, apropos of nothing.
—Jodi Walker, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2020
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To the delight of Francisco's little girls, the place serves, apropos of nothing, a truly over-the-top chocolate chip cookie.
—Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2022
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Now several days, dozens of all-caps tweets and a couple rounds of golf later, America is stuck in a hellish limbo apropos of 2020.
—Scott Gillespie, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
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Warhol says, apropos of almost nothing in the first minutes of the play, referring to Valerie Solanas, whose 1968 attack nearly killed him.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
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So, no one should have been surprised when Trump brought up Hunter Biden, apropos of nothing, at the first presidential debate this past Tuesday.
—Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2020
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For all the memes this year that were directly inspired by some global event, perhaps just as many sprung up apropos of absolutely nothing.
—Andrea Park, Marie Claire, 22 Dec. 2020
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During one of their conversations, Sanchez says Cazes brought up with her, apropos of nothing, the question of AlphaBay's morality.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
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None of it comes without hard work, explains Drizzy, who, apropos of nothing, posted a throwback picture with Swift on his Instagram account.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2022
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The result is a pleasantly unexpected collaboration, apropos of Swift’s best album yet.
—Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2020
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One particular audience member seemed abnormally fixated on who Elias had voted for — apropos of nothing.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2022
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