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How to use appraisal in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Appraisal means the act or process of developing an opinion of value. Example: “The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.”

Examples of appraisal by meaning

nounThe act or process of developing an opinion of value.

  • She hated that silent appraisal, watching someone compare her to a version that she might have been.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 47

More sentences with appraisal

  • The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.From the entry write up
  • A realistic appraisal of the situation.From the entry realistic
  • They use words like appraisal, evaluation, assessment, their Roget's litany, to avoid the constrained "test" connotation.1987, Robert Mills Gagné, Instructional Technology: Foundations, page 364. From the entry Roget's
  • Therefore, in performance appraisal, modern organizations should re-examine the purpositivity requirements of performance appraisal from the perspective of management philosophy.2022, Xianghe Yi, Sufen Lu, Jianjun Tan, “Ethical Review of Performance Appraisal”, in Taosheng Wang, Srikanta Patnaik, Andrew W.H. Ip…. From the entry purpositivity
  • “Automised job appraisals, AI-generated scripts, micro-housing, the coupling of surveillance and insurance, the burning council estates: it’s all already here.2019 June 30, Philip Oltermann, quoting Sibylle Berg, “German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain”, in The Guardian. From the entry microhousing
  • Estimates of the value of land and improved real estate may be based on approaches that do not involve appraisals.1993, Martin Alan Miller, Larry P. Bailey, Miller's Comprehensive GAAS Guide, pages 81–3. From the entry nonappraisal
  • Semisomnolence always deserves careful appraisal for possible organic etiologies.1968, Harvey J. Widroe, Ego Psychology and Psychiatric Treatment Planning, page 84. From the entry semisomnolence
  • Science now supports a cognitive appraisal model for understanding why some athletes can take everything in stride while others release the kraken.2017, Lesley Paterson, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion, VeloPress, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry release the kraken
  • We will be making an on the spot appraisal of the fundamental fact of the century: the systematic "koranization" of the masses.2008 Edmund Burke, Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics - Page 177. From the entry koranization
  • Search the footnotes with a flashlight, you wouldn’t find an explanation, let alone an appraisal, of $16 billion of this mystery meat.2002, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, volume 20, page 8. From the entry mystery meat
  • Also, the effectiveness of the agrominerals has to be assessed along with an appraisal of risks, costs and benefits of agromineral development.2002, Tom Vandenbosch, Farmers of the Future: A Strategy for Action, →ISBN. From the entry agromineral
  • A realistic appraisal of the attackers shows that at least some of their arguments were just as emotional and "unscientific" as those of their attackees.2001, John Willner, Leigh Westin, Edgar Cayce, The Perfect Horoscope, page 45. From the entry attackee
  • Whereas retroduction involves one step, and deduction involves two, induction, as the third stage, involves three: classification, probationary argument, and appraisal of the probations.1995, Douglas R. Anderson, Strands of System: The Philosophy of Charles Peirce, page 161. From the entry retroduction
  • Reservative censos can not be validly constituted until the value of the estate has been determined by agreement between the parties or by expert appraisal.1918, Frederick Charles Fisher, The Civil Code of Spain: With Philippine Notes and References, page 347. From the entry reservative
  • Yet we have not emphasized the clinical appraisal of verbal protocol in this chapter; nor have we emphasized the significance, personalitywise, of the factors yielded by the analysis.2002, George Kelly, The Psychology of Personal Constructs, volume 1, page 215. From the entry personalitywise
  • When polity underbounds (that is, addresses a subspace within) the space affected by regional policy, the appraisal of development proposals is partial and vital interests go unrepresented.1994, Environment and Planning: Government & policy. From the entry underbound
  • Chart 1 shows the change in the periodicals' attitude toward Homonism from a very negative appraisal in the mid-nineteenth century to a moderately favorable viewpoint in the mid-twentieth century.1961, Richard Olsen Cowan, Mormonism in National Periodicals, Stanford University, page 203. From the entry homonism

Meaning of appraisal

  1. noun The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
  2. noun A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.

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Questions about appraisal in a sentence

How do you use appraisal in a sentence?
Appraisal is used as a noun. For example: “The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly.”
What is a short sentence with appraisal?
“A realistic appraisal of the situation.”
What does appraisal mean?
Appraisal means the act or process of developing an opinion of value.

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