Example sentences for: earmarked

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

  • In this case, national saving would drop slightly, but the couple would have saved more and expressly earmarked more of their assets for retirement.

  • The Supreme Court of Texas created the Foundation (www.txiolta.org) in 1984 to administer funds earmarked for the provision of civil Legal Aid to low-income Texans.

  • In his WP column, Michael Kelly doles out some important context to the recent news that an international aid effort has produced $3 billion in pledges of aid for the Palestinian Authority: the London Sunday Times recently reported that the PA once diverted $20 million earmarked for low-cost housing to luxury flats for Yasser Arafat's elite instead, and moreover, that the PA's own auditors found last year that nearly 40 percent of the annual budget of $323 million was wasted, looted or misused.

  • The NYT notes that no money has yet been earmarked for this elimination mission.

  • A column on the Ritter resignation by the Post 's Jim Hoagland claims, citing impartial sources, that U.S. resistance to the U.N. inspection effort went so far as to include the CIA's successful undoing of a Ritter plan to deliver to the U.N. 120 prohibited Russian missile gyroscopes earmarked for Iraq.


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