APPROVE in a Sentence

Learn APPROVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

284 example sentences for APPROVE, such as:

1. Not that I approve your doing it.
2. The Senate promptly approved the bill.
3. The Government has approved the budget.
4. Congress has approved a new publication law.
5. After a long debate, Congress approved the proposal.

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 Meanings and Examples of APPROVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
approve
 v.  ratify; consider right or good; think or speak favorably of
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was pushed out now, and Scarlett knew that Mammy was seething over something of which she did not approve.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Besides, the fat Dutch woman who is sitting on the throne is a God-fearing soul and she doesn't approve of slavery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Yes, the conquerors did approve of her and her family and her neighbors did not.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  She would be helpless and sheltered, as a lady should be, and then everyone would approve of her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  It was enough that some day, when she had money, everyone would approve of her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  "If she had any sense, she'd realize a few things and she couldn't approve," Rhett finished.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  I'm sure your children won't approve of you, Scarlett, any more than Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Elsing and their broods approve of you now.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  She had the old feeling that Will knew all about her and Ashley, understood all and did not either censure or approve.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  Grandma fanned herself with her palmetto leaf and went on briskly: "I don't approve of the match any more than you do but I'm practical and so are you."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  If ever anyone deserved a watch, you do, and I know Pa would approve.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  He took her to plays and annoyed her by whispering that God probably didn't approve of such amusements, and to churches and, sotto voce, retailed funny obscenities and then reproved her for laughing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
12  Not that I entirely approve of library methods in these large cities.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  Not that I approve your doing it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
15  There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
16  After a long debate, the House of Commons approved the bill.
17  The Government has approved the budget.
18  In October Parliament approved a revision of the budget.
19  The programme was approved at a plenary session of the Central Committee last week.
20  The conference approved a proposal for a referendum.
21  Congress has approved a new publication law.
22  After a long debate, Congress approved the proposal.
23  Congress approved legislation which outlawed the sale of the drug.
24  All parties eventually approved the final draft of the peace treaty.
25  The general session approved the report of the investigation committee.
26  The approved method of cleaning is industrial sand-blasting.
27  Its constitution allows it to publish contracts and practice notes only where these have been approved unanimously by the constituent bodies.
28  The Senate promptly approved the bill.
29  The proposal was approved by both the House and the Senate.
30  The Administration proposed and the Senate approved a similar understanding in its resolution of ratification of the Convention against Torture.