How to use contribution in a sentence

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• In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.From the entry in
• She was praised for her erudite contributions to the academic journal.From the entry erudite
• Don't you know that some of his contributions here are pure flattery?From the entry flattery
• I think we made a meaningful contribution to this project today.From the entry meaningful
• That's my contribution to the health care conversation.From the entry conversation
• He never really made a contribution to the match, so it was no surprise when he was subbed at half time.From the entry sub
• You've made several material contributions to this project.From the entry material
• His contributions to open source are numerous.From the entry open source
• She was an essayist whose frequent contributions to the editorial pages of major newspapers had a loyal following.From the entry essayist
• In a friendship, reciprocity occurs where the contribution of each party meets the expectations of the other party.From the entry reciprocity
• You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.From the entry earmark
• In the history of lighthouses, English civil engineer John Smeaton made a significant contribution to the design of them.From the entry lighthouse
• The government provided tax relief on pension contributions.From the entry tax relief
• His contributions to science went unnoted.From the entry unnoted
• The university’s abandonment of its founding value of academic freedom in exchange for the corporation’s large financial contribution was a Faustian bargain.From the entry Faustian bargain
• Whether you call them garden shed inventors or backyard innovators, they've made big contributions to gross national income on both sides of the Atlantic.From the entry garden shed
• The kids' involvement was unfortunately more of a spanner in the works than a helpful contribution toward Daddy's progress on the task, but he gamely pretended to be thankful anyway.From the entry spanner in the works
• My own contribution for the BBC London headline at the time was: "Euston, we have a problem."2025 November 12, Tom Edwards, “Tackling the 'Euston Rush'”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 32. From the entry Houston, we have a problem
• Joseph Locke made a significant contribution to the development of railways in Britain.2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 57. From the entry air-brush
• The industry is counting on SAF for two-thirds of the contribution to achieving its net zero target.2023 May 28, John Gapper, “The price of flying will keep rising, even on Ryanair”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry SAF
• This paper aims to make a valuable contribution to the research in the field of internet pragmatics.2023, Li, H.X., Liu, J.Y. and Zhang, X.Y., “A Pragmatic Study of Self-Depreciation in Social Media Context”, in Open Access Library Journal. From the entry self-depreciation
• Our approach comes with a sincere respect for children, including their privacy and contribution”.2023, Claire McLachlan, Tara McLaughlin, Sue Cherrington, Assessment and Data Systems in Early Childhood Settings, page 108. From the entry childcentric
• My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny.2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter. From the entry radblr
• First, the value-added contribution from each origin country is adjusted according to their (nowcasted) change in GDP.2019, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Transnational Corporations, page 124. From the entry nowcast
• Many of their contributions got reversed almost immediately, in what is known as a "drive-by deletion."2018 October 8, Dawn Bazely, “Why Nobel winner Donna Strickland didn’t have a Wikipedia page”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.…. From the entry drive-by
• The current volume, however, is not only a major contribution to academic Buffydom.2017, Anahid Kassabian, “Afterword”, in Paul Gregory Attinello, Janet K. Halfyard, Vanessa Knights, editors, Music, Sound and Silence in…. From the entry Buffydom
• However, the contribution of plant metabolism of topramezone to this tolerance is unknown.2015 July 18, “Cytochrome P450 Inhibitors Reduce Creeping Bentgrass ( Agrostis stolonifera ) Tolerance to Topramezone”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry topramezone
• Loraux's contribution is to explore the psychological bases for the exclusions.2015, Roland A. Champagne, The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth): The Structuralists on Myth. From the entry overfacile
• The study aims to make a contribution to the acoustic sociotonetic study of lexical tones of S.2015, Sujinat Jitwiriyanont, “Gender Variation in Acoustic Characteristics of Southern Pa-O Lexical Tones”, in Manusya: Journal of…. From the entry sociotonetic
• Ciriaco's epigraphic collections on paper, known as sylloges, are his most famous contribution.2014, Evelyn Karet, The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy, page 109. From the entry sylloge
• Wealthy interests can fund advocacy organizations with no disclosure of their contributions required.2014, Darrell M. West, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry ultra rich
• True, its contribution is the largest, but methane and CFKs are very important as well.2013, Kohei Narisada, Duco Schreuder, Light Pollution Handbook, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 706. From the entry CFK
• In other words, it′s the approach of that great Australian contribution to Western civilisation: schoolies week.2012, Peter Ruehl, Men Are Stupid, Women Are Crazy, page 91. From the entry schoolies week
• On the whole, Dyke’s book is an important contribution to debates about philosophical methodology, truthmaking, and ontology.2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2…. From the entry truthmaking
• IFC's role and contribution is estimated to be better with repeat than nonrepeat clients.2008, Dan Crabtree, Independent evaluation of IFC's development results 2008, page 33. From the entry nonrepeat
• Turingery worked on deltaed key to produce the deltaed contribution of the chi-wheels.2007, B. J. Copeland, “Tunny and Colossus: Breaking the Lorenz Schlüsselzusatz traffic”, in Karl de Leeuw, Jan Bergstra, editors, The…. From the entry delta
• Maturationism is a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the contribution of biological processes to children's development.2007, Moncrieff Cochran, Rebecca S. New, Early Childhood Education, page 509. From the entry maturationism
• The main thing is to die after having truly lived, after leaving behind a contribution.2006, Dan Millman, “On Chapter Four: The Sword is Sharpened”, in Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book that Changes…. From the entry today is a good day to die
• However, rent seeking by seeking favorable legislation can be costly (e.g., in contributions to campaigns).2006, Walter J. Wessels, “Public Choice and Externalities”, in Economics (Business Review Books), 4th edition, Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's…. From the entry rent-seeking

Meaning of contribution

1. noun Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
2. noun An amount of money given toward something.
3. noun The act of contributing.

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Questions about contribution in a sentence

How do you use contribution in a sentence?

Contribution is used as a noun. For example: “He made a contribution of $100 for the victims of the flood.”

What is a short sentence with contribution?

“His contributions to science went unnoted.”

What does contribution mean?

Contribution means something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.