How to Use allot in a Sentence

allot

verb
  • The newspaper will allot a full page to each of the three mayoral candidates.
  • Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes.
  • That does not allot to our fees.
    — Darian Symoné Harvin, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • It had been allotted the land in an auction more than a decade ago.
    — Anita Raghavan, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • The judge has allotted one week for the trial.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2026
  • All meals and snacks are allotted in a pool of credits at the start of your stay.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But with age, the number of chances you’re allotted go down.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Williams said that grant amounts are allotted on a case-by-case basis.
    — Magali Gauthier, Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Teams are allotted two challenges per game.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Teams are allotted two challenges per game.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 22 Mar. 2026
  • In the case of Ivey, the front office should be allotted some grace.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The studio will have allotted drop-off times or set up a drop box for the items that need to be fired.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2020
  • There should be transparency for the process of how to allot funding.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 13 May 2025
  • For the first time in weeks, many of us are allotted free time to think and to do and visit and to eat.
    — Anne T. Donahue, Allure, 22 Dec. 2017
  • But don’t bet on much of it being allotted for swifter vote counting.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • Even Wyoming allotted three-and-a-half times more money, the study found.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
  • Spending of the money allotted for the fund has dropped in recent years as well.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The time allotted for updating the rules is coming to an end.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The new approach would allot them to applicants who earn the highest wages.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
  • In this context, a speech expands or contracts to fit the time allotted.
    — Readers, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The more flights in and out of O'Hare, the more gates an airline is allotted.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The seven-minute film asks what kind of place society should allot to the most painful or shameful parts of its past.
    — Güzin Kar, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But building a consensus in the two days allotted for the meeting will be very hard.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • What most struck me at the time, though, was that the landlord had allotted just one svelte closet for the entire unit.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2025
  • When there’s a gap in the meeting schedule, take your golf cart (one is allotted to every room) out for a spin.
    — Demarco Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • Chapa said there is only a short time allotted by the state to improve the school’s ratings.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, try allotting up to a fifth of your daily calorie allowance to the sweet of your choice.
    — Kristine Thomason, Health, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Each of us was allotted a small piece of bread for breakfast and a modest portion of rice or pasta for lunch.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The gardens were beautiful and many took a tram ride to try and see as much of the gardens in the time allotted.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2023
  • Picks 4 to 14 will then be allotted in reverse order of the teams’ records.
    — Benjamin Hoffman and Victor Mather, New York Times, 16 May 2018

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