How to Use sublease in a Sentence

sublease

1 of 2 noun
  • And then, of course, there are the other co-working competitors and the glut of sublease space out there.
    — Curbed, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The clock ticks loudly in my subconscious until our sublease ends in June.
    — Naomi Jackson, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Sources said landlord Heitman is expected to approve the sublease deal in the next two weeks.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The regional availability rate, which includes space marketed for lease or sublease, is 19%.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The sublease listings would appear to indicate that Amazon won’t open a Whole Foods at either of those locations.
    — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The new kitchen in Berkeley is a sublease from Morell’s Bread, in the same building as Third Culture Bakery.
    — Becky Duffett, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Total vacancy includes both direct vacancy, in which unused space is marketed by a landlord, and space marketed for sublease by a tenant.
    — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In a market where few new leases — particularly for large blocks of space — have been signed in the wake of the pandemic, the sublease deal is one of the most significant transactions to have closed in recent years.
    — Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The availability rate is the combination of space offered directly by property owners and space offered by tenants through subleases.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • That came in the form of leases, subleases and enterprise agreements with coworking spaces like WeWork, in addition to building purchases.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The Denver and Centennial spaces are being marketed for sublease by Chad Knoth of Locate.
    — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • That space was 43% vacant as of the fourth quarter including space listed for sublease, according to real estate brokerage CBRE.
    — Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The availability rate is a combination of spaces that are empty and being offered directly for lease, spaces that are offered for sublease, and spaces that will soon be empty because the tenant is exiting the site or downsizing.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Inside, about 150,000 square feet is currently available, a majority of which is sublease space, according to real estate insiders.
    — Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The tower made headlines again at the start of 2023, when its prominent anchor tenant dumped all of that space on the sublease market, joining the list of major companies in the city that embraced remote work in the midst of the pandemic.
    — Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The high-rise, which connects to Salesforce Park via a skybridge, only has a few floors left that are available for leasing — a formidable turnaround given that its entire office component was languishing on the sublease market less than three years ago.
    — Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2026
  • And a spokesperson for Meta confirmed that the company this year sublet roughly 80,000 square feet to Perplexity AI, one of the biggest chunks of the company’s sublease to be absorbed so far.
    — Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The Housing Commission leases office space to create a non-profit center, and subleases to the NonProfit Collaborative, according to the bill.
    — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Because both deals — OpenAI and Anthropic — involved sublease space, the landlords of Uber’s campus and Slack’s headquarters had to give their consent, which prolonged negotiations.
    — Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In July 2024, Amtrak took over station management and operations under a sublease from the USRC, following a yearslong legal battle with the real estate company that controlled its commercial spaces.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The maker of ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 could sign a sublease with Uber at the ride-hailing company’s Mission Bay headquarters within weeks, said three real estate sources tracking the potential deal.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The Berkeley Student Cooperative, a nonprofit housing 1,300 students in 17 houses and three apartment buildings, including Evans Manor, near UC Berkeley, regained control of the building after a 35-year sublease ended in April.
    — Hamza Adel Fahmy, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Other tech company deals, such as the OpenAI rental of a campus in Mountain View, the lease and sublease deals of Santa Clara office spaces by Everpure, and a lease by Infineon Technologies of an office site in San Jose, have also fueled a stronger South Bay office market.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026

sublease

2 of 2 verb
  • She subleased her apartment to a student for the summer.
  • The agency subleases office space from a law firm.
  • The company has since subleased out some of the space.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Google is also in talks to sublease space from Salesforce, two sources said.
    — Roland Li, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
  • People sublease rooms in apartments to help cover their own rent.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • The company is looking to sublease that space.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
  • Nickel Plate Arts would likely hold the lease and sublease the space to artists.
    — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Vir will sublease space from Dropbox, which has shifted to remote work.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • For two years Levine had subleased part of her suite, becoming a distant fixture in her life.
    — Nathan J. Fish, azcentral, 3 June 2018
  • For years, Surf Cup subleased part of the polo grounds for its soccer program.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Leach said that the group is talking to the landlord about possibly subleasing the space to others.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • More space was available to sublease than in either of the two prior years, but growth in sublease space was slowing, the firm said.
    — Lauren Zumbach, chicagotribune.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Whataburger will work with landlords to sublease those properties as well, the company said.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Lasser said one trend that could be growing is for a tenant to lease and pay for a space, but will sublease that space to a different tenant.
    — Karen Caffarini, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The firm initially planned to sublease the building and eventually buy it.
    — Esther Fung, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The redevelopment agency then subleased the space to the museum at no charge.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The other nine tracts were purchased by the state of Alaska, which would have to sublease them to an oil company for any work to proceed.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Ensurge has been seeking to sublease the building, according to real estate sources.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The apartment unit was being subleased to a couple, who had recently been evicted, the sergeant continued.
    — Nicole Hensley, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
  • Wawa is also looking to sublease a portion of the property to a restaurant, Huffman said.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • While Tavistock hopes to sublease the land, reworked language in the agreement made clear the public would have access to it.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 July 2018
  • Facebook, which has a big presence in the region, will sublease some of its office space in Seattle and Bellevue.
    — Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • According to the indictment, the group also subleased the hotel rooms for profit and spent the money on food, drugs and other items.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Since the pandemic and the rise of remote working, Akamai decided to sublease a portion of its space.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In a third transaction, American subleased a gate to Delta Air Lines.
    — Bart Jansen and Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The company sought to sublease some of its space before the pandemic shutdowns, and later put its construction on hold because of the virus.
    — Sarah Freishtat, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Instead of moving in, the couple subleased the units at a profit in violation of their leases, according to the complaint.
    — Olivia Zaleski, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Real estate brokers expect that the Uber will seek to sublease much of its surplus office space in Deep Ellum.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 9 July 2021
  • But after the pandemic the company sought to sublease a portion of its space after letting employees work remotely for part of the week.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The topic of needing some sort of office space by July or August had come up, leading to a hunt for what might be available to sublease downtown.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2021

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