Examples of “distribution” in a Sentence

noun The act of spreading or handing something out.

• The distribution of leaflets around the neighborhood took the volunteers most of the weekend.
• Teachers supervised the distribution of exam papers to each desk.
• The charity is in charge of food distribution in the region.

noun The process of getting goods from a maker to the people who buy them.

• The company has signed a deal for the distribution of its snacks across Europe.
• Poor distribution meant the new magazine was hard to find in small shops.
• The film got a limited theatrical distribution.

noun In statistics, the pattern showing how spread out or common different values are.

• The graph shows the distribution of heights among the students in our class.
• Statisticians checked whether the data had an even distribution around the average.
• The test scores followed a normal distribution.