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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

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 • Dec. 6, 2023

Overnight, we heard the British national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” updated to reflect the kingdom’s new reality, its apposite monarch tweaked in the title, its pronouns abruptly swung back to the masculine.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

“Avoiding recommendations because there’s no perfectly apposite data is a cop-out,” he added.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

The whole notice is so apposite to my purpose, and would be so interesting to every Manxman, that I would fain insert the whole bodily, did the Author and the limits of an Introduction permit. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.