How to Use allotment in a Sentence

allotment

noun
  • Their allotment of food is based on the size of their household.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
  • More than half of the meager allotment was used to pay his train fare.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Most teams have already spent most of their pool allotment this year.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
  • My allotment of eclipses is over and done, finished, just like my chance to ride that kid’s horse.
    — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Less than a minute had expired from their 10-minute allotment.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
  • Here are more details on how to enter and which bottles are in the allotment.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Which brings us to salary allotment, in DFS.
    — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In past years, Cobra Jet allotments have sold out in a few days.
    — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2018
  • For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Stevens said Brown was pretty fresh and would be able to play a full allotment of minutes.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • An allotment of 650 tickets is now on sale.
    — Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Dec. 2025
  • This marks the fifth straight week with a significant jump in the state’s allotment.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Every move has the same price and whittles down your season’s allotment of moves.
    — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • So, how do first-timers distinguish themselves from the pack to land a piece from this allotment?
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The Yankees could decide to trade much of their allotment.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But the turn of the fairway and the heavy allotment of trees blocks most good vantage points from the fairway rough.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
  • Once again, the Eagles are not using their full allotment.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Glassman said the county will be able to spend its entire allotment before the end of the year.
    — S. Wayne Carter Jr., baltimoresun.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The focus of the first allotment will be health care workers, the governor said.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The market is based on a points system, and clients each get a certain allotment based on their household size.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2023
  • Word had spread quickly and the allotment for Tuesday had already been snatched up.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The county plans to use the system for its next vaccine allotment and hopes to have the phone lines up and running as well.
    — Nicole Wetsman, The Verge, 4 Jan. 2021
  • That amount got a green light from the company's board, which will meet next week to finalize the allotment of shares.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Winners, drawn at random, will be able to buy an allotment of four beers and a snifter for $130.
    — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The state hopes to use at least 70% of the weekly federal allotment.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021
  • By the time Syracuse dropped him, all of those schools had moved on and filled their allotment of scholarships.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026
  • This marks the 10th straight week with a significant jump in the state’s allotment.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The Wildcats sold out their ticket allotment two days after the matchup was announced.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • On all three plans, hotspot speeds are slowed to a maximum of 128 kbps once customers use the allotment.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
  • Scarpetta contains the standard allotment of feints and false leads.
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026

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