- past participle of appropriate.
- past tense form of appropriate.
appropriated
Example Sentences
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Congress authorized reconstruction after the British burned the White House during the War of 1812 and specifically appropriated money used to construct the original East and West Wings.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Every dollar appropriated, he added, would be used to build the "lethality" of US military forces and "reinforce peace through strength".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“There is no significant pool of federal grant money appropriated, so this threat has no teeth for any state. None of them are expecting any significant federal funds for elections,” Becker said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Conservative intellectuals in the U.S. appropriated Disraeli as an exemplar of temperament and principle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In Germany, however, Taylor’s idea was picked up, and effectively appropriated, by a theorist named Alfred Wegener, a meteorologist at the University of Marburg.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
