DISTRIBUTION in a Sentence

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The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled that public schools must prohibit the distribution of candy canes or Christmas cards.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTRIBUTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
distribution
 n.  act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Nor do I believe that any prudent man need shrink from the judgment of the people in questions relating to particulars, as, for instance, in the distribution of honours and dignities.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII.
2  For in such matters only, the people are either never mistaken, or at any rate far seldomer than a small number of persons would be, were the distribution entrusted to them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII.
3  It seems to me, however, not out of place to notice in the following Chapter, a method employed by the Roman senate to enlighten the people in making this distribution.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII.
4  A glance at the distribution of land among the black owners curiously reveals this fact.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  If so, time was precious; for, now that he had achieved a certain amount of distribution, he could, by choosing his own time, complete the task unobserved.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  Maria superintended the distribution of the barmbrack and saw that every woman got her four slices.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In CLAY
7  He assumed such a comical face and voice that the distribution of the bottles of stout took place amid general merriment.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
8  In the second, the distribution of enjoyment.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
9  From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
10  By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must be understood.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
11  To such customary routine belonged his conversations with the staff, the letters he wrote from Tarutino to Madame de Stael, the reading of novels, the distribution of awards, his correspondence with Petersburg, and so on.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVII
12  The higher authorities and the police organized the distribution of goods left behind by the French.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIV
13  Some of the boys about me put in their claim not to be forgotten in the distribution of the good things, as I got out of my seat with great alacrity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
14  Large experiments in politics and in co-operative distribution, ventures requiring knowledge, courage, and imagination, do originate in the West and Middlewest, but they are not of the towns, they are of the farmers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  Locksley now proceeded to the distribution of the spoil, which he performed with the most laudable impartiality.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  IQs within the population show a normal distribution.
17  He bought a map showing the population distribution of Scotland.
18  The two peaks in the distribution represent the continental platforms and the ocean basins.
19  The map shows the distribution of this species across the world.
20  The goods have been sitting in a warehouse for months because a strike has prevented distribution.
21  The U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled that public schools must prohibit the distribution of candy canes or Christmas cards.
22  Gannett, the nation's most predatory newspaper conglomerate, is still trying to take over the rack distribution business.
23  The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution, includes botany and zoology and all their subdivisions.
24  The variance and the closely-related standard deviation are measures of how spread out a distribution is; in other words, they are measures of variability.
25  An electric power distribution bus(or cable) that supplies functional units or electronic devices.
26  Uruguay has often been described as the Switzerland of South America: it has a stable democracy, a relatively equitable distribution of wealth and the most generous welfare state in the region.
27  The foreman distributes the work every morning.
28  The relief agency distributed food among the poor.
29  The company distributed its profits among its workers.
30  In a co-operative profits are distributed among the work-force.