How to Use apropos of in a Sentence

apropos of

preposition

• 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
• This test would have been more apropos of a Final Four, or better yet, a championship game.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• Gizelle up and asks Candiace at the table, apropos of nothing.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The result is a pleasantly unexpected collaboration, apropos of Swift’s best album yet.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2020
• 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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