How to Use reapportion in a Sentence

reapportion

verb
Definition of reapportionnext
Synonyms for reapportionnext
  • They are used to reapportion all 435 House seats and thousands of state and local districts, as well as divvy up trillions of dollars in federal grants and aid.
    — Michael Wines, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • Solution: Prohibit them from voting for the next 20 years and reapportion their stuff.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The Supreme Court ruled that states had to regularly reapportion legislative seats to maintain districts of equal size.
    — Emily Badger, New York Times, 22 June 2019
  • Then in July 2020, Mr. Trump ordered the data to be used to remove unauthorized immigrants from the coming census totals that would reapportion the House for the next decade.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Duffey's signature was on the letters reapportioning the Ukraine aid.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The tug of war over congressional maps has begun years before the 2020 census, which will collect the data used for reapportioning seats in Congress.
    — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Yet the country’s belated pangs of conscience have not induced any inclination to reapportion the spoils.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Senate Bill 45 would have reapportioned the cost of lawsuits for construction defects — but proved too controversial for this term.
    — Brian Eason, The Denver Post, 8 May 2017
  • There are 435 seats in the House of Representatives and after every census, they are reapportioned among the states, based on how their populations have changed during the preceding decade.
    — Dan Walters, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2018
  • The complicated part involves pooling a portion of the tax base from each of 180 cities and townships in a seven-county region, and then reapportioning that tax base in the pool according to the needs of each community.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Sometimes complications arise if someone feels overloaded but cannot reapportion the load.
    — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Urban interests were unhappy that Congress did not reapportion House seats among the states after the 1920 census as the Constitution requires.
    — Michael Barone, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Legal and legislative efforts to reapportion revenues have so far centered on the contentious debate over athletes profiting from their name, image and likeness.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Census data is used to reapportion House seats every 10 years, to guide redistricting and to distribute over $1.5 trillion in federal funding.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The city folk got a provision, still in effect, setting an arithmetic formula that automatically reapportions House seats among the states from census results.
    — Michael Barone, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The decrease could significantly affect the state because the House will now reapportion its 435 congressional seats based on population shifts.
    — Carly Roman, Washington Examiner, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The starkest example might be in California, where advocates think an undercount would likely cost them at least one House seat after congressional seats are reapportioned based on the new Census counts.
    — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • After the 1920 census—the first in which a majority of the population was urban—Congress failed its constitutional duty to reapportion itself, as rural states opposed the loss of power that would have entailed.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Previous party leaders have used the event to preview their agendas, as the gathering often precedes a party congress held once every five years to reapportion leadership portfolios.
    — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • In March, Congress passed a resolution of disapproval to override Trump's use of his national emergency declaration to reapportion billions of dollars for his border wall, which Trump vetoed.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2019
  • But under a Democratic National Committee rule, if a state has an election but statewide and superdelegates are not selected before a candidate withdraws, his or her statewide and superdelegates are reapportioned to candidates still in the race.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The census tally, which includes everyone living in the United States regardless of immigration status, is used to reapportion political boundaries every 10 years to account for population changes.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • But the decennial data is used in reapportioning House seats and doling out federal grants, and while noncitizen residents can receive government benefits, only citizens can vote.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Secondly, it was tied to a mechanistic, arithmetic approach to ensuring representative government, reapportioning Congress after each count.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'reapportion.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: