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How to use appropriating in a sentence

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It has a contemporary edge that recalls, without appropriating, the vocabulary of William Forsythe.
In appropriating reproductive power without women, it enacts an appropriation of maternity by patriarchy.
My issue is that he's compensating for his own missed childhood by appropriating other people's childhoods.
Because it was university property, appropriating the sign had to be an undercover job.
The United States emerged as the world's industrial leader by illicitly appropriating mechanical and scientific innovations from Europe.
Brands are being used to humanise corporations by appropriating cuddly characteristics such as courage, honesty, friendliness and fun.
This work illustrates her recent turn from appropriating photojournalistic images and portraits, toward obscuring the body.
Cavendish is appropriating Machiavellian virtu as a female as well as male quality.
The two were astonishingly productive, and some of the most noted men of the day were accused of appropriating their ideas.
But the Revolution widened the gap irrecoverably, the British appropriating the overseas markets and resources that France lost.
Supposing a landowner exploits his tenants and mulcts them of the fruit of their toil by appropriating it to his own use.
Has anybody taken our New Wave of abstract artists to task for appropriating aboriginal art?
You will know that on occasions, Government is accused of appropriating elements of research for its pre-decided purposes.
Just as academe got bashed for appropriating jazz, this show will face criticism for its heady approach.
Any talk about the city, any observation about the place becomes a way of appropriating it.
This is especially true of re-eligere, since choice implies appropriating for oneself.
Up until now, either they did not save in this way or they tried to hide it, in order to avoid any risk of their husbands appropriating it.
Yet again, the Union is appropriating the competences of the Member States and failing to replace their policies.
Chad has taken steps to prevent any other State or legal person from appropriating anything falling within the scope of its national sovereignty.
This is appropriating an area of jurisdiction that does not belong to it and forces Quebec and the provinces to become managers for Ottawa.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To plagiarize is to quote without credit, appropriating another's words or thought as one's own.
Incidentally, we are appropriating the Golden Fleece and its cargo.
There was an appearance of sacrilege, in her eyes, in the act of appropriating these things to herself.
It will be done by appropriating the customs of Saturnalia, a northern European festival celebrating the Winter Solstice, with Saturnalia bushes styled as Christmas trees.
Was ever a promising young man wishing to lay the foundation of his fortune by appropriating his mother's guineas obstructed by such a day-mare as this?
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