apportion
verb (used with object)
to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution.
was apportioning
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past progressiveof apportion.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There seemed no rest or peace possible in the hall, and Redwald was apportioning all the accommodation to his followers as they came, preserving only the private apartments of the lady Edith from intrusion.
From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
She was apportioning fifteen hundred pounds on the upkeep of her future home.
From What a Man Wills by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Already, indeed, her generous heart was apportioning out the different presents it would enable her to make to my sister, to the poor H——s, etc.
From Thomas Moore by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
