APROPOS in a Sentence

Learn APROPOS 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.

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1. He had nothing to say apropos of the latest developments.
2. Guy Pollock crossed the street to be pleasant apropos of California and new novels.
3. She knew that he would want oysters, that he would have heard of Harvey's apropos of Grant and Blaine, and she took him there.

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 Meanings and Examples of APROPOS
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apropos
 a.  with reference or regard; in respect
Classic Sentence:
1  Guy Pollock crossed the street to be pleasant apropos of California and new novels.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  She knew that he would want oysters, that he would have heard of Harvey's apropos of Grant and Blaine, and she took him there.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4  Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden fleur-de-lys, fought each other apropos of the King of Rome.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
6  Gillenormand spoke slightingly of the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and Robespierre.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
Example Sentence:
1  I'll admit - this list is completely in apropos of nothing.
2  He had nothing to say apropos of the latest developments.