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Six example sentences with apposite, each labelled with its topic.
Her closing quotation from a shipwreck diary was strangely apposite, since the whole essay had been about drifting careers.
Literature
The attorney cited a 1974 shipping case that proved unusually apposite, matching the facts of the dispute almost point for point.
Law
The encore was apposite: a quiet lullaby for a hall full of parents who had brought sleeping children.
Music
The lecturer's example, a lighthouse keeper who never sees a ship, was apposite to the question of unwitnessed duty.
Philosophy
Her apposite reminder that the firm had survived 2008 quieted the room before the vote on the cuts.
Business
The mayor's apposite comparison of the budget to a household with two mortgages made the cuts easier to explain.
Politics
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