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Example sentences for: proposition

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

If News Quiz responses are any guide to popular taste--a ludicrous proposition, but play along--the two most greedy and lustful and savage realms are backstage at the Miss America pageant and inside Pat Buchanan's head.
You might have thought that the proposition that when the government hands out money someone will take it had already been amply demonstrated.
Why is it, for instance, that the LAT puts California's biggest social impact story in a generation, the upholding by a federal court of the proposition that overturns virtually all of the state's affirmative action programs, in a tiny box nearly at the bottom of the front page?
Prudie suggests you not feel flattered by this proposition and get a grip.
A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.