How to Use carte blanche in a Sentence

carte blanche

noun
  • We gave the decorator carte blanche to furnish the house.
  • Does this give us all carte blanche to make young-girlfriend jokes?
    — Vulture, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Kelly hasn’t gained that type of carte blanche with the media.
    — Thomas Conroy, ajc, 26 Sep. 2017
  • That doesn’t give someone carte blanche for the rest of his career.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Fong liked his work and gave him carte blanche in the community.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Students were given carte blanche.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The coach did not promise him carte blanche to express himself.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • That does not mean the executive branch should get carte blanche.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Bridwell was, in essence, giving himself carte blanche to run the show.
    — Dan Hyman, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Give yourself carte blanche to eat your favorite egg-centric dishes any time of day.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The band’s given Ross carte blanche to add his own fingerprints to the sound.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Anyone feeling daring can roll the dice on the four-course carte blanche for $90.
    — Aoife O'Riordain, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025
  • In Poland, however, the judges have been granted carte blanche to fill out their own ranks.
    — Ryszard Legutko, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Why would any artistic director give this guy carte blanche to reopen a theater?
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Did Freudenberger have a creative carte blanche?
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In working with McCann, she was given carte blanche on her script.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In other words, there’s carte blanche acceptance of debt with no assessment of risk.
    — Brian Curcio, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In Philip, Titian found a patron willing to give him high fees and creative carte blanche.
    — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • His administration has given carte blanche to the armed forces.
    — Jasmine Garsd, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Armed with the new law and guns, white kidnappers had carte blanche to snatch and enslave free Black people, too.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Yonezawa has carte blanche, and her resulting artwork is to be unveiled some time later this year.
    — Miles Socha, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
  • One of the amazing things about Pixar is that the animators have full carte blanche to create.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • But this does not imply that that handful ought to be granted carte blanche over the party’s entire agenda.
    — The Editors, National Review, 20 May 2025
  • Retailers, brands and mills have carte blanche to rename the solutions to fit their branding.
    — Fairchild Studio, WWD, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The show’s creators have carte blanche to play in the nightmare world Atwood created.
    — Laura Hudson, The Verge, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Rod Rosenstein gave carte blanche over this special counsel for Robert Mueller.
    — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
  • If one of those investors was a car or liquor company, does that give them carte blanche to use these songs in their advertisements?
    — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 6 June 2019
  • That’s when the culinary team has carte blanche to transform leftover produce from the week into a unique pre-fixe menu to avoid excess waste.
    — Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
  • McLeod’s efforts speak to the cultural shifts that have given athletes carte blanche in matters of style.
    — Essence, 2 May 2024
  • And then that carte blanche idea gets challenged in Episode 6, when Debbie breaks Ruth’s ankle!
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2018

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