APPROVE in a Sentence
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284 example sentences for APPROVE, such as:
1. Not that I approve your doing it.
2. The boss wouldn't approve of the plan.
3. Father approved our plan to visit New York.
4. I don't approve of your defeatist attitude.
5. Children must use an approved child restraint or adult seat belt.
2. The boss wouldn't approve of the plan.
3. Father approved our plan to visit New York.
4. I don't approve of your defeatist attitude.
5. Children must use an approved child restraint or adult seat belt.
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Meanings and Examples of APPROVE
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approve
v. give sanction to
v. judge to be right or commendable; think well 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.
2 Besides, the fat Dutch woman who is sitting on the throne is a God-fearing soul and she doesn't approve of slavery.
3 Yes, the conquerors did approve of her and her family and her neighbors did not.
4 She would be helpless and sheltered, as a lady should be, and then everyone would approve of her.
5 It was enough that some day, when she had money, everyone would approve of her.
6 "If she had any sense, she'd realize a few things and she couldn't approve," Rhett finished.
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.
8 She had the old feeling that Will knew all about her and Ashley, understood all and did not either censure or approve.
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."
10 If ever anyone deserved a watch, you do, and I know Pa would approve.
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.
12 Not that I entirely approve of library methods in these large cities.
13 Not that I approve your doing it.
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.
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.
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1 The agency has been vilified by some doctors for being unnecessarily slow to approve life-saving drugs.
2 I don't approve of your defeatist attitude.
3 Do not take it for granted that the board of the directors will approve of the plan.
4 The boss wouldn't approve of the plan.
5 They urged parliament to approve plans for their reform programme.
6 We are a moral, ethical people and therefore we do not approve of their activities.
7 He was placed in the anomalous position of seeming to approve procedures which he despised.
8 By the way, if the surrogate is also the real mother, I would not approve.
9 He said failure to approve the pact would have led to a forced opening and the import of much more rice.
10 In a recent commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine, he says it would be easier to approve a drug based on blood tests rather than the more arduous and expensive tests that show a drug actually improves a person's health.
11 Children must use an approved child restraint or adult seat belt.
12 The Afro-Asian nations had approved the basic general principles of non-alignment.
13 Father approved our plan to visit New York.
14 The leadership want to present a single slate of candidates to be approved in an open vote.
15 Parliament today approved the policy, but it has not yet become law.