| 1. | It was such an odd expression, coming apropos of nothing, that it quite startled me. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | "But apropos of Debray, how is it that I have not seen him lately at the baron's house. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | When some one shows great intensity of action directed toward a definite end we often say "he puts his heart and soul into it." This phrase is apropos of almost everything the Muscular does. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 5. | The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden fleur-de-lys, fought each other apropos of the King of Rome. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his bliss, said, apropos of I know not what inciden. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | Gillenormand spoke slightingly of the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and Robespierre.--"The men of ' were giants," said Marius with severity. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |