How to Use premise in a Sentence

premise

1 of 2 noun
  • They were asked to leave the premises.
  • The premises were searched by the police.
  • He disagreed with her premise.
  • The company leases part of the premises to smaller businesses.
  • Where did this premise come from?
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • The premise is gonzo and the cast is top shelf.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • How did the premise of this film come to you?
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
  • What is the premise of Pluribus?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
  • When the core premise is sound, the rest flows from there.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The premise of my novel, in fact.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But the premise is simple enough.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 2 Mar. 2026
  • All desserts are baked on the premises.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 26 May 2026
  • The coming weeks will test that premise.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The coming weeks will test that premise.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • That gap is no longer just a sitcom premise.
    — Bob Batchelor, Fortune, 23 June 2026
  • That gap is no longer just a sitcom premise.
    — Bob Batchelor, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • Suffice it to say, the premise is bonkers.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Yeah, these premises are no good.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
  • That’s just too generic a premise.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The bet’s premise was simple enough.
    — Eric Turkheimer, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There are some caveats to the premise of this column.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Branch disagreed with the premise.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Brown disagreed with that premise.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026
  • Much of the food for guests is grown on the premises.
    — Andy Court, CBS News, 3 May 2026
  • But Fort Worth needs no premise to eat beef.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • How did this premise come to you, Angus?
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This was Stalin’s premise, too.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The police set off to raid the premises.
    — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The premise of the wrongful death suit was simple.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The main thing is the premise and the story have to be funny.
    — Thr Staff, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025

premise

2 of 2 verb
  • This trade is premised on a half-full/half-empty view of Kyrie.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 23 Aug. 2017
  • But democracy is premised on the idea that nobody does.
    — Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • All of this is premised on the idea that this is all there is to the disinformation campaign.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The move is premised on the campaign's goal of playing to the strengths of Biden and Harris.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Yet from the Deep South came an entirely new style premised on three-chord laments told in a minor key.
    — Eric Althoff, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Crucially, those payouts were premised on there not being a major crash in those world markets.
    — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
  • This is all premised on an accounting fiction that somehow trade deficits are terrible.
    — Fox News, 10 June 2018
  • But Warren’s advisers say her campaign was always premised on the long game.
    — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
  • Of course, this idea is premised on the notion that widespread adoption is in the public’s best interest.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And so the deals – the deals were not premised on whether or not the – the emergency tariff litigation would rise or fall.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • It was premised, a senior Biden official said, on elections taking place.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Why not stay inside and play a board game premised on how the kind of flooding the city faced over the weekend will only get worse in the coming decades?
    — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Both were premised on the idea of frictionless ease, liberating their users from outmoded toils.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The McCarts' federal complaint is premised on falsehoods and at odds with the true facts.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 5 July 2017
  • This time, Nikki Haley hoped for a shocker; indeed, her campaign was premised on it.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
  • All of this, however, is premised on Facebook having access to the payment data of its users.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 18 June 2019
  • Eric Hjalmarson, who is in his second year as head coach, was away from the camp premises when the incident took place.
    — Richard Obert, azcentral, 17 July 2019
  • The judge also implies that a defense premised on White House interference may fall short.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Fine dining, as a genre, is premised on exclusivity and scarcity, the sense that money functions as a private code.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To be sure, if Cosby is convicted, his appeal will likely be premised on a violation of due process.
    — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2018
  • This is not a baggy hangout show premised on listening to a bunch of famous people running over each other while trading stories.
    — Vulture, 13 July 2023
  • It is premised on the idea that partisanship is bad, consensus is good, and that most Americans would like to meet in the middle.
    — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The pay cabler argues that the legal claims are premised on an old agreement that has been fully performed by the parties and thus terminated.
    — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2019
  • But in 2016, the United States elected a politician whose campaign was premised on doom and gloom.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, an injunction to stop a company from polluting a lake is premised on the idea that damage to a lake and the life in it is irreparable.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • After all, the show is premised on the idea that one person in a couple issues an ultimatum to their partner, telling them to either propose or take a hike.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That’s the dream on which this Ravens season is premised, the hope that will make this football September more interesting than most.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2023
  • That translates into a bet against corporate bonds at Saba, premised on the view that subdued yield spread makes a wager against credit too juicy to pass up.
    — Lu Wang, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • Harm reduction is a public health approach to drug use premised on the idea that the aim of policy should be to maximize health and minimize damage.
    — Daniel Denvir, Slate Magazine, 30 May 2017
  • Democrats have questioned whether her transfer was premised upon her willingness to sit for that interview, but Blanche has defended the move.
    — Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026

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