How to Use reapportion in a Sentence

reapportion

verb
  • The House has been similarly reapportioned every ten years since.
    — Made By History, Time, 2 Apr. 2025
  • No value would be destroyed if elements of this contract were revised as part of this sale; it would merely be reapportioned, more fairly in our view.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Sometimes complications arise if someone feels overloaded but cannot reapportion the load.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Duffey's signature was on the letters reapportioning the Ukraine aid.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The statement said about $882 million will be returned or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
  • The Supreme Court ruled that states had to regularly reapportion legislative seats to maintain districts of equal size.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 22 June 2019
  • Senate Bill 45 would have reapportioned the cost of lawsuits for construction defects — but proved too controversial for this term.
    — Brian Eason, The Denver Post, 8 May 2017
  • They are used to reapportion all 435 House seats and thousands of state and local districts, as well as divvy up trillions of dollars in federal grants and aid.
    — Michael Wines, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • Legal and legislative efforts to reapportion revenues have so far centered on the contentious debate over athletes profiting from their name, image and likeness.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The once-in-a-decade count is required to reapportion the House of Representatives to reflect changes in the nation’s population.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 July 2022
  • The House later passed a plan to reapportion the 105 districts in the House of Representatives.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The new maps had to reapportion the state’s population, which has continued shifting from rural communities to urban and suburban areas.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Wimberger insists that Evers can easily solve the problem by directing his agency to reapportion funding.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The census proved accurate enough in the end to be used to reapportion the House of Representatives and guide the drawing of new political maps nationwide.
    — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The tug of war over congressional maps has begun years before the 2020 census, which will collect the data used for reapportioning seats in Congress.
    — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The city folk got a provision, still in effect, setting an arithmetic formula that automatically reapportions House seats among the states from census results.
    — Michael Barone, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Previous party leaders have used the event to preview their agendas, as the gathering often precedes a party congress held once every five years to reapportion leadership portfolios.
    — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • DeSantis has also said that because the state’s population growth has changed rapidly since 2020, the state should be reapportioning its districts.
    — Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 27 Apr. 2026
  • India’s constitution mandates that parliamentary seats be reapportioned after every census, which normally happens every ten years.
    — Yamini Aiyar, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2025
  • The decrease could significantly affect the state because the House will now reapportion its 435 congressional seats based on population shifts.
    — Carly Roman, Washington Examiner, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The complicated part involves pooling a portion of the tax base from each of 180 cities and townships in a seven-county region, and then reapportioning that tax base in the pool according to the needs of each community.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • There are 435 seats in the House of Representatives and after every census, they are reapportioned among the states, based on how their populations have changed during the preceding decade.
    — Dan Walters, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
  • Constitutionally, House seats are reapportioned every ten years by state legislatures following the national census.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The starkest example might be in California, where advocates think an undercount would likely cost them at least one House seat after congressional seats are reapportioned based on the new Census counts.
    — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Wallace railed against the 1965 Voting Rights Act and federal mandates to reapportion the legislature as attacks on local control.
    — Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The exciting question, for friends of a free Ukraine, is what the Ukrainians do once the Kremlin reapportions its surviving A-50s and inevitably leaves a gap in its aerial radar coverage.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • But the decennial data is used in reapportioning House seats and doling out federal grants, and while noncitizen residents can receive government benefits, only citizens can vote.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Urban interests were unhappy that Congress did not reapportion House seats among the states after the 1920 census as the Constitution requires.
    — Michael Barone, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Secondly, it was tied to a mechanistic, arithmetic approach to ensuring representative government, reapportioning Congress after each count.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment requires 'counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed' for purposes of reapportioning the House.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025

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