allot

Example Sentences

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Pheu Thai was allotted nine minister jobs, including agriculture, labour, education and social development.

From Barron's

No one makes as many good points in the allotted debate time as I can.

From Literature

The ladies agree to allot 20 minutes to grousing about their aches and pains, and then they have to move on to some appointed discussion topic.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We wrote up this agreement about screen time with his school counsellors, what he had to get accomplished in order to get an allotted amount of screen time," Ping said.

From BBC

Wolf Alice, winning best group, used their allotted stage time to make a plea for the "pubs, clubs and grassroots venues where we quite literally learned to play our instruments and write our songs".

From BBC