Example sentences for: auspices

How can you use “auspices” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Canals, roads, and the Great Wall were built under the auspices of an extensive public works program staffed mostly by conscripts.

  • State planning today occurs under the auspices of the Legal Services Coordinating Council.

  • Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, who studies the daily life of Jews in Nazi Germany.

  • It was an army barracks until 1966, when it was taken under the auspices of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.

  • In the example above, Yellowstone National Park would be reported under a category, such as "National Parks," as one of the total number of heritage assets under the auspices of the Department of the Interior; it also would be reported by the number of acres that it occupies under the stewardship land category for the Department.


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