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.
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Eymann said if not for his son's donation, the city would likely have never put up a piece for Swanston.
— CBS News, 29 Dec. 2022 -
The suggested donation is $14 per tree and $8 per wreath.
— oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Jennifer went through another round of bloodwork and tests to prepare for kidney donation.
— Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 24 Dec. 2022 -
In exchange, they were given the chance to enter a drawing for an iPad or to make a small donation to charity.
— Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2022 -
Fox made a big donation to his environmental green fund to make sure the trilogy rises to the tippity top of his to-do list.
— Hunter Harris, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2022 -
To participate or make a donation, visit rchumanesociety.org/senior-programs or email Vetcareprogram@sdpets.org.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022 -
Gamble was one of several people who organized costume donations or Halloween events for kids and families.
— Chantelle Lee, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
The top donation amounts were not disclosed by the fundraiser or the campaign.
— Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024 -
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 -
Allen said that most of the donation now will be refunded.
— Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024 -
Of this total, $38 million is a donation to the Amazon Fund.
— David Biller, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023 -
Her family has asked for donations to go to Not An Easy Fix.
— Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024 -
The largest donation, $5,000, was to the Beau Biden Foundation, which works to protect children from abuse.
— Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2023 -
The event is free and donations are encouraged, according to the Eventbrite page.
— Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024 -
The resolution approved by the school board states that private donations would be used to pay for the name changes.
— CBS News, 11 May 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 -
For a donation, the zoo allows the scorned to name a cockroach, rodent or veggie after an ex.
— Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Jan. 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 -
Its work is funded by a few hundred subscribers as well as grants and donations.
— Claire Harbage, NPR, 22 May 2024 -
In between were short videos of Miller showing off his merch and asking for donations, which have been coming in.
— Will Carless, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023 -
This year, one school from the area will win a $1,000 donation to its school’s athletic department.
— Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2023 -
In a year that saw leadership turnover, public protests, and plagiarism allegations, the fundraising machine at Harvard University still saw its second-highest donation haul in its 388-year history.
— Fortune Editors, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
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