How to Use allot in a Sentence

allot

verb
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  • The newspaper will allot a full page to each of the three mayoral candidates.
  • Each speaker will be allotted 15 minutes.
  • But would the conflict breach the two Y.M.C.A. lanes allotted to the team?
    — Miriam Jordan Afif Amireh, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The bustier’s stitching allotted a bit of depth and detail to the clean-cut look.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Spending of the money allotted for the fund has dropped in recent years as well.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The new approach would allot them to applicants who earn the highest wages.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
  • Picks 5 through 14 will then be allotted in reverse order of the teams’ records.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • Instead, try allotting up to a fifth of your daily calorie allowance to the sweet of your choice.
    — Kristine Thomason, Health, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In this context, a speech expands or contracts to fit the time allotted.
    — Readers, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The company that recorded the book allotted me 100 hours in front of the microphone.
    — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Still to be revealed in addition to the name of the Boston team is how the 18 players will be allotted among all six teams.
    — Michael Silverman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • The means and the budget Moscow has allotted for its dark ambitions in Ukraine are stretched thin.
    — Michael Kimmage and Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2023
  • This year, Cox signed a bill that would allot $40 million towards efforts to save the shrinking Great Salt Lake.
    — Kim Bojórquez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • And a lot more panic than progress in the first months of the three years allotted for the job to be finished by the time the sanctuary opened on Easter Sunday 2017.
    — Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • This year, the state plans to allot just over $18 million to local districts to put on summer learning camps.
    — al, 13 Jan. 2022
  • My draft is invariably too long, and cutting it to the 150 words I’m allotted can be taxing.
    — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • And the Kansas cancellation did at least allot the Longhorns more time to both prepare for Iowa State and heal up.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • If a recipient’s SSN ends in zero, payments will be allotted on the 10th of the month.
    — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This is on top of the almost $5 billion already allotted.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And unlike many wine books, this one will allot the latter as much coverage as the former.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 16 June 2022
  • That brings the student total to 8,000, which is how many also were allotted for the season opener two weeks ago against Ohio.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Bags of flour are big and bulky, and are allotted relatively little space on store shelves.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
  • Both men want more from life than they've been allotted, and both will be disappointed.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 5 Aug. 2023
  • That sounded reasonable to us, but the next month we were only allotted three kilos of rice.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Mar. 2024
  • That’s almost as much as the entire city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is allotted.
    — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The parking ratio is one space allotted for every 300 square feet of living space.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • People began lining up outside the court on Wednesday hoping to snag one of the few seats allotted to the public.
    — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Part of the pitch clock is allotting pitchers a maximum of two pickoff attempts.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 23 Mar. 2023

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