How to Use dispensary in a Sentence

dispensary

noun
  • In fact, there are dispensaries all over the city that sell it.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The outdoor space in the back of the dispensary is so unique and so plant-filled.
    — Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Inside the dispensary, which was lit up with neon signs, smooth jazz played.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The state won't pay dispensaries for the samples.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The cannabis menu features just three brands, two of which have yet to launch into dispensaries.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Most dispensaries sell a wide range of products at a variety of price points.
    — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
  • No pot farms or dispensaries have been allowed to operate in the state.
    — Ashley Okwuosa, The Examination; Amy Yurkanin, Al.com; John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • This will be during the dispensary's first in a series of monthly car shows.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The world of cannabis has blossomed into so much more than flower jars and dispensaries.
    — Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Only three dispensaries have been licensed in Texas in the past three years.
    — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And of course the dispensaries that did make the deadlines and did open on time are a little bit upset.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In turn, each dispensary will pay the city $20,000 per year.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The city had to wait for taxes to roll in from its sole cannabis dispensary, Zen Leaf.
    — Kari Lydersen, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Customers over the age of 21 can purchase weed from dispensaries across the state.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Mint has eight dispensaries in Arizona.
    — Ray Stern, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Those two changes pushed the total tax paid by legal dispensaries on each sale to more than 35%.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Now, more than 20 dispensaries are open across the state, including six in the metro.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Thorsen is able to deal with any type of customer, regardless of what brings them to the dispensary.
    — John-John Williams Iv, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2022
  • That means that these new developments will not have a path to include any new dispensaries.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The Madrones is also home to two winery tasting rooms and a high-end cannabis dispensary.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 12 May 2022
  • The black market cannabis is also ending up on shelves in legal dispensaries.
    — Yael Ossowski, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The number of hemp stores is less clear, but could equal or exceed the number of licensed dispensaries.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In the years that followed, smoke shops and dispensaries have popped up on every corner in Austin.
    — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • The ban does not impact the sale of marijuana in dispensaries.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But the cannabis dispensaries are open on Sundays so why can’t the liquor stores be open on Sundays?
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Borelli got out of the car and walked toward the front of the dispensary before lying down on the sidewalk.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
  • Lines at Colorado dispensaries may be long this week, but overall, cannabis sales in the state are slowing down.
    — Jasmine Arenas, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The Mint is a dispensary, after all, so its goal is set at 4,200 bras.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2021
  • But part of the first floor, where the business offices used to be, is now a marijuana dispensary.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Some dispensaries even had to limit the amount of product available for purchase due to the immense crowds.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2020

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