Example Sentences

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In the covered outdoor corridors, Irhil and the other families have appropriated the space, setting up planters on ledges, a dish-washing station in a classroom sink, and clotheslines between the columns.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

There was something liberating — validating even — to see an art form long demonized as vandalism, at the same time that large corporations have appropriated it, take over such a visible part of downtown.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024

One of the two researchers that Concytec has already removed from the registry was found to have appropriated the curriculum vitae of a Spanish researcher and republished articles by that researcher under their own name.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 21, 2023

Across the Global South, governments and corporations have appropriated fields, forests and rivers for development projects such as highways, hydropower plants and mines, displacing between 90 million and 100 million people in the 1990s alone.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Conflicting choice is not likely to have appropriated all three of your favorite anecdotes.

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell