apposite
Example Sentences
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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
"Deterrence is particularly apposite in this case given the current state of affairs in Sudan," she said.
From BBC
On guitar, she played a mash-up of A Place In This World, from her debut album, and 1989's New Romantics, with the apposite lyric: "Heartbreak is the national anthem / We sing it proudly."
From BBC
Depression had not previously been the subject of comedy, but it seemed appropriately apposite to a year of national self-celebration.
From Los Angeles Times
The play ends with Alvita and her husbands singing along to Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman,” which is both apposite and wrong.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
