How to Use sublet in a Sentence

sublet

1 of 2 verb
  • The agency sublets office space from a law firm in the building.
  • She sublet her apartment to a student for the summer.
  • I need someone to sublet my apartment for the summer.
  • He asked his landlord if he could sublet.
  • Levine had sublet the space from the woman, who had already left for the day.
    — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 9 June 2018
  • There was no money to pay a baby sitter, or to sublet a room.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Last spring, my boyfriend sublet a spare room in his apartment to an aspiring model.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Mathus and his wife had worked out an arrangement to sublet a place near City Park.
    — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • To adapt to the new reality, the firm may try to sublet a portion of the 41st floor.
    — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The city, per the contract, has two years from the date of the lease offer to find one or more suitable tenants to sublet the space.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Breckenridge sublet his apartment and moved back home to Fallbrook.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Webster wondered if Deyko wanted to come see the space and possibly sublet it.
    — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The firm leases office space, redesigns it to create a hip vibe and sublets it to startups, freelancers and some big firms.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Police say Scales would sublet to acquaintances and strangers who couldn’t qualify for a lease on their own.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Often, the only way to offset the cost of unused space is to sublet it to another company.
    — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Last week, Madonna offered them her New York City apartment to sublet.
    — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Your best option might be to look for someone who can sublet her apartment for the duration of the lease, if the lease permits subletting.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2022
  • In the summertime, snowbirds sublet nicer upper-floor apartments from students.
    — Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2017
  • In the meantime, some are offering patches of their existing offices to others to sublet.
    — Star Tribune, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The school’s landlord said that the school is willing to sublet its classroom space and the school paid its city and county taxes 169 days late.
    — Jane Stancill and Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The pinballers sublet part of their warehouse storage space to another company, which could be a permanent move.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2021
  • Those would include a one-year waiting period on rentals, or a minimum lease term of one year, or a ban on subletting, to name a few examples.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Within a few weeks, my husband and I decided to sublet our apartment, finance a car, and embark on a cross-country road trip.
    — Cat Quinn, refinery29.com, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In March, 2016, Hamilton sublet her apartment, to save money.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • The space was eventually sublet by the Carter Burgess engineering firm.
    — Sandra Baker, star-telegram.com, 19 June 2017
  • They were supposed to sublet two rooms, but two women already occupying one of the rooms refused to leave — or pay their share — leading to constant disputes.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Lopdrup did not provide a number of corporate staffers in Orlando, but said the employee count wasn’t a factor in the choice to sublet the space.
    — Austin Fuller, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • During the pandemic, the company shifted to remote work and made plans to sublet 80 percent of its headquarters.
    — Erin Griffith, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The Santa Monica Art Studios held the master lease on the space; artists, in turn, sublet their studios from them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • Now, Parisian renters can request Airbnb-friendly leases, which explicitly allow a renter to sublet an apartment on the platform.
    — Jessi Hempel, WIRED, 3 July 2018

sublet

2 of 2 noun
  • I'm looking for a sublet since I'm only going to be here for the summer.
  • How would a baby fit into a sublet that doesn’t even allow pets?
    — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Jankauskas was the main tenant and had sublet a room to the woman for about a year, the outlets added.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • On this issue, your colleagues and good friends in the Senate are bought and paid-for sublets.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The first instance was an outgrowth of her sketchy sublet arrangement.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Elo had sublet the apartment from a Chinese friend and paid every month’s rent in advance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • For instance, the lease prohibits any part of the property from being sublet.
    — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 5 July 2017
  • When the beach sublet expired, the couple began searching for a new apartment.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 14 Feb. 2012
  • Cons The fee to sublet starts at 30 percent of the maintenance and grows over time.
    — Heather Senison, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Crupi claimed his former roommate had sublet his room, the outlet reported.
    — Abigail Adams, People.com, 22 July 2025
  • In this week’s Listings Project alone, there are six — six — posts for sublets that come with a cat that must be fed and watered.
    — Curbed, 25 July 2023
  • The Rockies have sublet Coors Field to tenants for three years running.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The grant helped defray airfare, her summer sublet and other expenses.
    — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The unit cannot be sublet by the renter or used for commercial purposes, weddings, receptions, big parties or sales events.
    — Terri Daxon, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The 21-year-old London transplants are without work visas and must find a way to earn the extortionate rent on their summer sublet.
    — Kate Mabus, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Walking or hiking with her dog, Skopey, taking classes and her new sublet studio have increased the face-to-face connection with others.
    — Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2020
  • She was forced to vacate a sublet on the Upper West Side when the leaseholder was evicted for nonpayment of rent.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Like many young actors, Erik Heitz, who moved to New York in 2011, has largely lived in sublets.
    — Kim Velsey, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • But there’s little question that the country’s real owners have abandoned all discretion in the use of their governmental sublets.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Dec. 2017
  • In the lawsuit, filed in New York State court, the Mattas claim that the landlord found out about the sublet and moved to evict everyone.
    — Curbed, 5 Aug. 2022
  • These dwellings range from crowded but legitimate sublets to dangerous and unlawful boarding houses.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • The office of student affairs at your school may also point to off-campus housing solutions including short-term sublets, apartments, youth shelters or room shares.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • An affiliated website advertised apartments and single rooms for sublet in Queens.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • Previously such groups have sublet space from the Community Center.
    — Bob Skolnik, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Lennon found his comfort zone quickly after landing in a Greenwich Village sublet apartment in 1971.
    — Author: Larry McShane, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Paris followed through in April of this year, filing a lawsuit against Airbnb over the tens of thousands of unregistered listings on the site, a majority of which were sublets.
    — Nick Statt, The Verge, 26 June 2018
  • Sprint spokesman Dave Tovar said those are not actors but rather shoppers who wandered into the sublet space that Sprint turned into a parody of the Verizon store that operates next door.
    — Mark Davis, kansascity, 25 July 2017
  • These dwellings, especially in New York’s outer boroughs, range from crowded but legitimate sublets to dangerous and unlawful boarding houses.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • With anecdotal evidence suggesting some apartments were illegally sublet, authorities fear people might be afraid to come forward to offer valuable information that could identify the missing.
    — Danica Kirka, The Seattle Times, 2 July 2017
  • Hit particularly hard are people in the hospitality industry who had sublet from private landlords without tenancy agreements and were therefore unable to benefit from the government’s temporary ban against evictions.
    — Ceylan Yeginsu, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2020

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