How to Use donation in a Sentence

donation

noun
  • We are grateful for the donation of whatever you can afford to give.
  • The organization is funded by private donations.
  • The zoo is holding a donation contest to vote for the calf’s name.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Chinchilla Café usually gives 100% of the donations at the door to the bands that play there.
    Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
  • The $1 billion donation is part of a fundraising drive that the college launched last year.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
  • Lutz was supposed to meet her dad for Father's Day, Slate wrote on the donation page.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 16 June 2023
  • This donation is the sum of 136 hours of his labor in the prison working as a porter/janitor.
    Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The fee is a donation to the ASID chapter; the designer donates their time.
    Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
  • One of their twins came from Clark's donation, while the other is from his partner's.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • Her family has asked for donations to go to Not An Easy Fix.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The royal siblings were told that the gifts and donations were sorted by teams of people giving their time for free.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • News of the art donation and museum is just the latest chapter in the Hedreens’ involvement with SU.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Proceeds from the thrift shop will support the church and its schools, and the donation of goods to local homeless and animal ministries.
    Andrea Manes, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Schiff hit back, prompting Porter to name drop a Sacramento Bee fact-check on claims about donations to her campaign.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Copies are also available at the museum for a donation of $15.
    Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • During a liver donation, a piece of the liver is taken from a donor and given to the recipient.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Her campaign did not deny the donation, and declined to respond to Vogel’s criticisms on the record.
    Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The Alpha Project is asking for donations of blankets, warm clothes, jackets, socks and ponchos.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The donations were made in cryptocurrency, which has long been a favorite of far-right extremists.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
  • Support her work with a tax-deductible donation atbit.ly/RFADonation.
    Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Many of her donations during a House career that began in 1993 came from those industries.
    Andrea Ruth, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The reverend last week launched an appeal for donations on GoFundMe to try to raise money that can be used to stabilize the area and, ideally, help with the long-term needs of the aging chapel.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The school would feel the pain if alumni dissatisfaction leads to a meaningful dent in donations.
    Janet Lorin, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The event, which will take place at the church on the 7300 block of North Caldwell Avenue, is free to attend but donations are welcome, according to church information.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • The donation led the school to rename its economics department after him.
    Michael J. De La Merced, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Two days later, he was taken off life support, and surgery was performed to remove his organs for donation.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
  • After Gómez died, the owner of a Mexican grocery store and restaurant more than an hour north of Antal Dairy put a small donation box near the register.
    Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Noack's respite does not bill insurance but covers the cost with state and regional contracts, as well as donations, like many other respites.
    Cheryl Platzman Weinstock, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • Frazier: Stay out of politics except for donations to me, please.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Martha Reeves has secured her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, thanks to donations from fans worldwide amid a fast-approaching funding deadline.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2023

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