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
• For a donation, guests are asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all the ‘empty bowls’ in the world.
  — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
• Chinchilla Café usually gives 100% of the donations at the door to the bands that play there.
  — Jackson Landers, SPIN, 8 June 2023
• The church would give these boxes of donations to the poor the day after Christmas.
  — Amanda Cappelli, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2024
• And near the end, be ready to make a donation to the Marion County Food Bank.
  — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The league runs with the help of donations, volunteers and the city's parks department.
  — Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Dec. 2024
• 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
• One in three people were repeat donors on the site, and the average donation amount throughout the year was $77.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
• The event is free and donations are encouraged, according to the Eventbrite page.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
• The suggested donation is $14 per tree and $8 per wreath.
  — oregonlive, 27 Dec. 2022
• The best defense against this type of scam, Roundy said, is to not try to make a donation through a link in an email, text or social media post.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Your donation to Bread for the City can level the playing field for people who need legal help.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• 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 resolution approved by the school board states that private donations would be used to pay for the name changes.
  — CBS News, 11 May 2024
• Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep her writing stories like this one.
  — Céilí Doyle, The Enquirer, 17 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Liver donation surgery is more invasive than kidney surgery.
  — Stephanie O'Neill, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025