How to Use lease in a Sentence

lease

1 of 2 noun
  • They took out a five-year lease on the house.
  • We hold leases on both of our cars.
  • Give it to me on a long-term lease.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • All of them stay yours when the lease ends.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
  • The terms of the lease were not disclosed.
    — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Marcelle said his name was not on the lease.
    — Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • At that time, Schnur said, no lease had been signed.
    — Rose Evans september 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Bears would agree to a 35-year lease.
    — John O'Connor, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That is a 66-year lease with the county.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But the land-lease model has become a trap.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Or when your tenant passes away mid-lease?
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The first year of the lease will go through the end of 2025.
    — Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The biggest stumbling block, though, is the ground lease.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The Wave's lease ended in April.
    — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The city extended its lease with the Civic.
    — Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • And her son is stuck with higher monthly payments over the life of the lease.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • But lease shops are staffed better and never have an issue of too many goods.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But the sale doesn't mean the end of all the businesses with leases there.
    — Olivia Young, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Monetary terms and the length of the lease were not disclosed.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2026
  • First, review your lease agreement.
    — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Sometimes of those questions could be answered in your lease.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The 55-year leases for two of the three parcels that make up the golf course are up.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • But even a three-year lease runs out eventually.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 20 May 2026
  • Put another way, its parents need to cosign its lease.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 June 2026
  • Its owners said the restaurant wasn’t able to renew its lease.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • The city agreed and signed a lease that called for the club to pay 3% of its gross income to the city.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Double-check your lease to confirm whether or not these rules could apply to you.
    — Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Marfil, who meets the blood-quantum threshold, now has her own lease nearby.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • The block is encumbered with three ground leases.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The panel passed freezes on both one- and two-year leases in a 7-1 vote.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026

lease

2 of 2 verb
  • I have leased this house for the last four years.
  • We leased the house to a young married couple.
  • She leases a red convertible.
  • The first of those rentals is now being pre-leased.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
  • SpaceX leases a launch pad there.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 May 2026
  • The state in turn leased some of the space back to HP.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The stadium would be owned and leased by the city.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Outfitters have leased up all the good ground.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Then the new owners will fix up the building and lease it out.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The group is already leasing the space.
    — Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • That the farmer's best option is always to lease more land.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Cade said some staff will stay with the new owners, who are leasing the space.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • What makes these cars even more exclusive is that they're leased for just two years.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Rather, the bank had hoped to find a buyer that would lease the building back to them.
    — Alice Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Another suite is leased back to the seller for one year.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Hotels leased by the city just last month to house migrants are already full.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The office tower was 74% leased as of last month.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • In the case of Golden, the state will lease the site to the firms for 99 years.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
  • The other seven will be leased publicly.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • That complex would have 268 units, leased at market rate.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Brighton did not own Bennett’s Field for many years and had leased it as a car park.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the building is listed online as available to lease.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Their vision was to lease office space and then rent smaller parcels of it to customers.
    — Time, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The campus is roughly 77% leased.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 26 May 2026
  • Foundation plans to lease its robots rather than sell them outright.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Instead, the Orioles lease with the state is due to expire at the end of this year.
    — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Crawford said roughly 90% of the spaces have been leased so far.
    — Rose Evans january 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Now, the company decided to lease the rest of it.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Each humanoid could be leased for around $100,000 per year.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Britain would then lease back the Diego Garcia base for at least 99 years.
    — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026

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