How to Use grant in a Sentence

grant

1 of 2 verb
  • I cannot grant you that wish.
  • The court granted the motion for a new trial.
  • The judge granted custody of the children to their mother.
  • We haven't yet been granted access to the archive.
  • The house is not perfect, I grant you that.
  • The mayor refused to grant my request for an interview.
  • I grant that he's a talented writer, but I just don't find his books very interesting.
  • The country was granted independence in 1950.
  • Sax takes none of it for granted.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • And the mice grant themselves a head start early in life.
    — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • This is not to be taken for granted.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Court filings do not yet show if it has been granted.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The pass will grant admission for up to four guests.
    — Noe Padilla, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Teams will be granted two challenges each game.
    — Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2026
  • What about those fighters grants them the respect of a great like you?
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • May God bless our troops and grant them strength, wisdom, and courage.
    — Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The court has two months to decide whether or not to grant this request.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Any overbuild would grant some payoff.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Whether the judge will grant it or not is another question.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Please never take it for granted and try to live your dreams every day.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Urban was granted 59 days out of the year.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2026
  • A lot of people have taken it for granted.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Don’t take anything for granted.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Urban, for his part, was granted 59 days out of the year.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Urban, for his part, was granted 59 days out of the year.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 8 Mar. 2026
  • These ideals are clear enough, but they must never be taken for granted.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The judge granted 28 days to file the appeal.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2026
  • Don’t take anything for granted.
    — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That progress matters, and it should not be taken for granted.
    — Suzette Valladares, Oc Register, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The pair dug a lot of the holes this program finds itself in right now, granted.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025

grant

2 of 2 noun
  • They wrote a grant proposal to get funding for the project.
  • Her study is being funded by a federal grant.
  • But now the grant is in jeopardy.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
  • The grant expires at the year’s end.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There are no strings attached to the grants.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Both award more than 8,000 grants each year.
    — Mirae Kim, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
  • The costs also are paid for through the Cigna grant.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2026
  • The service will run as long as the grant money lasts.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
  • The grants within the program vary in size.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
  • The rest would have to come from federal and state grants.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Each grant comes with something beyond the check.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Most of the state funding comes from alliance grants to the city.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The grant will pay for the project’s planning and design phase.
    — Joe Marusak july 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026
  • All of that requires more grant funding.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Two weeks later, the grant was canceled.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The primary grant ends next year.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
  • Hay approved one of the $5 million grants on his own.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
  • That is the gap Sentient says its grants and compute are meant to fill.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The restoration is funded by state and local grants.
    — Hank Tester, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The grant allows for a number of options.
    — Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • What's unique about this grant is that there is no matching requirement.
    — Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The restoration is funded by state and local grants.
    — Hank Tester, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Award $68,000 in one round of grant funding.
    — Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Those dollars can be matched by federal grants.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • This will be funded through a grant that the city says had to be used by June 30.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The five-year grant was supposed to end in June, Vigil said.
    — Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Other funding has come from county grants.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Counties need a plan to receive a variety of state grants.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026

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