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.
• The railroad had a lease to use the main Frisco line from Rogers to Bentonville.
  — Randy McCrory Vintage Bentonville, arkansasonline.com, 1 Feb. 2024
• Many of the leases within the Willow unit have been issued back to the 1990s.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• And her son is stuck with higher monthly payments over the life of the lease.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• State Farm occupies the buildings on a long-term lease.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 23 May 2023
• This week, his surging company signed the largest office lease seen in the city since 2018.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
• Robb also wasn’t told that the building was up for sale before signing the lease.
  — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• Though work paused last summer, the business holds a similar lease in Botswana near the delta.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024
• Those who had a place of their own, their name on a lease before losing shelter, made about $1,200 a month.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The land is owned by Church Commissioners for England and comes with a 94-year lease.
  — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The law is in response to longtime renter complaints that they are required to fork over huge sums just to start a lease.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
• While Skyline is now up to date on its lease payments, the city had to order the company to pay six months of back rent.
  — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• New leases are being signed in the downtown area and other parts of the city in every single day.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• Bailey’s firm has a 99-year lease on two motus — about 10% of the atoll’s land — with the rest preserved from any construction.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• And Launcher acquired the company's lease on a test site in Mojave.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 May 2023
• That means consumers can get the full amount of the credit with a lease even if the vehicle wouldn’t qualify via a purchase.
  — Alexa St. John, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
• Under the terms of the deal, XPO will purchase 26 of the service centers and assume the existing leases for the other two.
  — Stephen Nakrosis, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2023
• Down the field, Phelps also said, the city will consider a lease or a public-private partnership with VAI for the garage.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
• When the business moved to a new location in 2019, Luong was offered the lease to the building — a prime piece of real estate.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2024
• It was supposed to be Sunday, but Johnson and Cooper extended the lease by a month after the news hit.
  — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2024
• The idea, Rudnick said, is to start building even before tenants have signed leases.
  — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• In the meantime, the annual lease on my apartment is fast approaching.
  — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
• Rodriguez said his wife plans to terminate her lease and is looking for a new apartment.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The company wants to give up over 70 leases right away, with possibly more to follow.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The retailer also declined to renew the lease for its Rack Store across the street, setting a closing date of July 1.
  — Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Less than 10 minutes after the locks were changed, a man claiming to be on a lease for the home pushed through the home's door, and police soon arrived at the home again, ABC 7 reported.
  — Emma Colton, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Though the property has been vacant for over a decade, Nerbun said in an email that the old lease owner had still been making payments.
  — Megan Woolard, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2023
• The current sales tax expires in the fall of 2031, several months after the current leases expire.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2024
• The latter were not gifts but were part of ongoing temporary lease agreements.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023

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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 only part of the peninsula that was not leased was the Walled City.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• The land is owned by the Department of the Navy, but has been leased to State Parks since 1971.
  — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Instead, the Orioles lease with the state is due to expire at the end of this year.
  — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2023
• One that’s out now touts the ability to lease a Model Y for $399 a month.
  — Dana Hull, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2023
• The apartments continued to be leased as short-term rentals.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2024
• The airport plans to build a new hangar on the site for Wingtip Aviation, of Valparaiso, which will lease it.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• But the ones that are leasing are more small businesses.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Hotels leased by the city just last month to house migrants are already full.
  — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• The land was given to the state to be sold or leased to benefit Arizonans.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• The city would need to deviate from the current plan to lease or sell its block of properties.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• More than half of the new building has been leased and the new owner is hunting tenants for the rest of the property.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• Their vision was to lease office space and then rent smaller parcels of it to customers.
  — Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• An investor who leased the surrounding lots hoped to lay claim to Abou Ali.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• The low-end estimate of new space luxury retailers have leased in the U.S. over the past 12 months, in square feet.
  — Zlati Meyer, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
• The launch had been planned for Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is leased to Russia.
  — Carmen Drahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2023
• China owns all giant pandas in the United States and leases them to zoos.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• If the team owners want to lease the land and build a stadium with their own money after those costs, then sure.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
• Vistra had leased the park property, which is about 90 miles south of Dallas, to the state at no cost for roughly 50 years.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• For Barney’s, where the owner doesn’t lease the building but rather owns the land, the strategy is simply to change nothing and wait.
  — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• The building is divided into three units and the buyer plans to renovate and lease the space.
  — Kathy Jumper, al, 11 June 2023
• Old Howard—not blood related, but the man who owned and leased to us the deer pasture, stepping out quietly, in his late 80s.
  — Rick Bass, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2023
• The apartments and offices are fully leased, Tufaro said, and True Chesapeake Oyster plans to stick around.
  — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2023
• My parents had cars and my stepmother leased a car every couple of years.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
• The specific requirements for leasing a car depend on the lender.
  — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 16 July 2023
• Pina was to manage all aspects of the construction of one and two-bedroom apartments, which would be leased at market rent, D'Angelo says.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• All of the rope ferries are owned by a private foundation, which leases them to the ferry pilots, or fährimaa.
  — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
• But leaning on lower-income and middle-class ride-hail drivers—who in New York City tend to own or lease their cars—has downsides.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024