How to Use dispensation in a Sentence

dispensation

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  • The state gave the town a special dispensation, allowing it to ignore the law in this case.
  • For those who don’t, hoping to win the favor of the NCAA and get some sort of dispensation is a skinny limb to stand on.
    — Jon Blau and Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2020
  • Guests at Valentino had to present a special dispensation card to simply get in to the area.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 7 Mar. 2022
  • These are the outposts of truth under the Nixon dispensation.
    — Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
  • The dispensation ends on March 13, the Archdiocese said last week.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The team gets a special NCAA dispensation to schedule an extra game due to the lengthy travel for road games.
    — Iliana Limón Romero, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
  • This revving, frisky 45 is a logbook containing the codes and call signs of the postwar dispensation.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • But the armed forces of Ukraine did not need special dispensation to defend the airport where the Russian planes were headed.
    — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • To not probate the estate and not pay the taxes shouldn’t be a reason for special dispensation.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 July 2019
  • The war started as the season of lent started, Kushnir said, though the church gives a dispensation for lent, a time of fasting, during times of war.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • There will be griping about the new dispensation, of course, some of it defensible.
    — Eamon Lynch, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the reason this party was such a hit was because of the special St. Patrick’s Day alcohol dispensation.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • This could include the ability to have a small snack or a dispensation not to have to climb a ladder later in pregnancy.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Allen Vigneron ended on March 13 the dispensation for Catholics to attend Mass in person.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Trustee Russ Smith asked the chief if residents could get special dispensation to turn down their street in either direction any time of the day.
    — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The dispensation was announced in a joint statement from the bishops of the Province of Indianapolis.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Sprouse said the City Council still will determine the dispensation of some property owned by Bethel Heights.
    — Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The couple received special dispensation from the bishop to get married on that day.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The crux is that there’s something decidedly off-putting about the dispensation of effort.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The dispensations have sparked questions in recent days.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • Anyone not in on this debt-point dispensation and reception is the wrong kind of white person — Donald Trump and those who voted for him, for instance.
    — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Of course, the next global war saw a similar strain of sympathy for the ruling dispensation in Germany.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Khan’s supporters – some armed with sticks and stones – marched through cities, chanting slogans against the ruling dispensation.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But the annual awards were granted special dispensation to go on, without a script.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2023
  • There was Neymar’s dispensation to skip practice with Barcelona on Wednesday.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The European Broadcasting Union, which oversees the contest, gave him special dispensation and his sister stood in for him during the first week of run-throughs.
    — William Lee Adams, Billboard, 14 May 2017
  • This dispensation helps drive the trade winds westward the better to feed the monsoon as the intertropical convergence zone sweeps north over India.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Here, where perhaps someday a memorial will stand, the old dispensation died.
    — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • This dispensation dates back to David Ben-Gurion, the country’s first prime minister.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • What was once an exceptional circumstance involving 4% of births is now a more usual one, yet colleges have done little to assist those damaged by the new dispensation, who are not members of a fashionable social class.
    — George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024

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