How do you use the word "appropriate" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "appropriate": Let no one appropriate a common benefit. But "experiment" is not the appropriate word.

Appropriate Meaning

/əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

verbTo set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

Sentence Examples

Let no one appropriate a common benefit.

But "experiment" is not the appropriate word.

These clothes are not appropriate for a cold winter day.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

right allow proper

Antonyms:

inappropriate

CEFR Practice Quiz

For a formal wedding, it is important to wear ____ attire rather than casual clothes.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Please wear ____ clothing for the formal dinner at the state palace.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""I promise you," said she, after a pause of some minutes, "to wear the last new dress you gave me, it is a triumph of taste!" Lord Marchmont bowed, and appropriated the compliment as if the taste had been his own, not the milliner's." — 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Prudence in Politics”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 179:

"We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"On the morning after the one-day strike, October 4, one of the Type 4s on crew-training, No. D169, was appropriated to head the 3 a.m. mail to Hull, as no steam locomotive had been lit up and the usual Hull Type 3 was not available; [...]." — 1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, pages 422, 425:

"Loitering, panhandling, soliciting prostitution, graffiti writing―these activities [are claimed to] foster serious criminality. As a result, disorder in itself has become a harm that justifies the criminal sanction. By appropriating harm in this way, the order-maintenance approach to criminal justice has disarmed the traditional progressive 1960s response of "no harm."" — 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:

"Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations" — 176, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

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