How to Use carte blanche in a Sentence

carte blanche

noun

• We gave the decorator carte blanche to furnish the house.
• Wrangel Island had no predators—including humans—and no other grazing animals, which gave the woolly mammoths carte blanche to munch and reproduce freely.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
• The vaccine is not a carte blanche to go back to the way things were. . . .
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
• Kal gave me carte blanche to do projects in the windows.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Kelly hasn’t gained that type of carte blanche with the media.
  — Thomas Conroy, ajc, 26 Sep. 2017
• That doesn’t give someone carte blanche for the rest of his career.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2018
• Does this give us all carte blanche to make young-girlfriend jokes?
  — Vulture, 13 Apr. 2022
• The band’s given Ross carte blanche to add his own fingerprints to the sound.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 19 Jan. 2022
• Fong liked his work and gave him carte blanche in the community.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• Bridwell was, in essence, giving himself carte blanche to run the show.
  — Dan Hyman, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2022
• In Poland, however, the judges have been granted carte blanche to fill out their own ranks.
  — Ryszard Legutko, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• The coach did not promise him carte blanche to express himself.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• In Philip, Titian found a patron willing to give him high fees and creative carte blanche.
  — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• Somehow, June has received carte blanche in Fred’s heart.
  — refinery29.com, 11 July 2018
• That does not mean the executive branch should get carte blanche.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
• One of the amazing things about Pixar is that the animators have full carte blanche to create.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• And then that carte blanche idea gets challenged in Episode 6, when Debbie breaks Ruth’s ankle!
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 July 2018
• The show’s creators have carte blanche to play in the nightmare world Atwood created.
  — Laura Hudson, The Verge, 27 Apr. 2018
• With respect to children, parents do not have carte blanche.
  — Marci Hamilton and Paul Offit, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
• Rod Rosenstein gave carte blanche over this special counsel for Robert Mueller.
  — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
• Give yourself carte blanche to eat your favorite egg-centric dishes any time of day.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 15 Apr. 2022
• For it, the designer, who crafted France’s Olympic uniforms, was given carte blanche to work with the house’s ateliers.
  — Lily Templeton, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
• Despite the Fed's carte blanche tactics, economists say the US is already in a recession and will remain that way for the first half of the year.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
• McLeod’s efforts speak to the cultural shifts that have given athletes carte blanche in matters of style.
  — Essence, 2 May 2024
• Raphael signed him shortly afterward, allowing him carte blanche in the studio, and Smith rose to the challenge.
  — Nick Duerden, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
• In other words, there’s carte blanche acceptance of debt with no assessment of risk.
  — Brian Curcio, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• In this role, Prigozhin effectively has carte blanche to act within Russia and Ukraine.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2022
• If one of those investors was a car or liquor company, does that give them carte blanche to use these songs in their advertisements?
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 6 June 2019
• But the idea of couture, as the creative director suggests, is also one of carte blanche; custom made clothes that start their life as white toiles.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2022
• Why would any artistic director give this guy carte blanche to reopen a theater?
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024