How to Use noncommercial in a Sentence

noncommercial

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• That is not in itself so odd; the noncommercial world has fed the commercial one for years.
  — New York Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• The track is available to be freely used for noncommercial purposes, and it’s popped up in dozens of SoundCloud tracks since it was first posted in 2019.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
• Its mission is to be a noncommercial site that provides a serious and deep look at her career.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Helping new and rediscovered work through that bottleneck is one of the things the noncommercial theater does best.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Its first flight after the long hiatus didn’t carry passengers and was noncommercial, the ministry said.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2021
• Sure, there may be a business or two adjacent to the town square, and there might be a few walls covered with flyers for punk concerts, but for the most part a town square is primarily a noncommercial space.
  — Justin Pot, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2022
• And there are thousands of takeoffs and landings performed by private noncommercial floatplanes in this region each month.
  — Dominic Gates, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2022
• The case was the first in a series of serious near-collisions involving commercial and noncommercial flights on or near the runways of major US airports.
  — Pete Muntean, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• Commercial and noncommercial bankruptcy filings ⑦ are both down from a year ago.
  — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Proudfoot: The short documentary is noncommercial in its aim.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Even a person who wants to fly a small plane for personal and noncommercial use needs 40 hours of flying instruction before getting a private pilot’s license.
  — Jeremy Straub, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2018
• Get hands-on lessons in backyard citrus orcharding, that is, growing fruit for noncommercial purposes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• The station can soon seek support from grants, foundations, listeners and noncommercial sponsors.
  — Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022
• Prior to the ordinance, residents could apply to display banners on city lampposts for a fee of a few hundred dollars, so long as banners were noncommercial, according to Potter.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020
• An inspector’s notes state the noncommercial microwave needs to be replaced with one for commercial use, cutting boards were unclean, a box freezer needed thawing, there were no training records for workers available on site.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2023
• Moreover, especially given how solidly guests stand by the noncommercial worth of their possessions, watching all of these objects get priced can make the final numbers stick out as fickle and farcical.
  — Stephen Lurie, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2021
• Because the free market works poorly for many filmmakers, a system of state subsidies often seems better at producing a wide range of ambitious but noncommercial films.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2022
• The property will still operate as a food pantry, but its activities will now be limited to the collection, storage and noncommercial distribution of food.
  — Dallas News, 19 May 2021
• Still others are attracted to the unusual character of noncommercial species.
  — Jill Draper, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• Super Disc Box is likewise listed on the Lexaloffle website with a similar noncommercial license.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2022
• Although the internet was very small and restricted to noncommercial use, Mr. Lynch was convinced of its ultimate commercial potential.
  — Katie Hafner, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• The Park Service will also no longer distinguish between different types of filming, such as commercial, noncommercial, or news-gathering projects.
  — Bryan Rogala, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2021
• These noncommercial drivers log long miles, sometimes in inefficient vehicles like SUVs and trucks, guzzling serious amounts of gas and producing a lot of carbon dioxide.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• Only the then-nascent noncommercial PBS provided gavel-to-gavel coverage.
  — Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• But thanks to a growing number of players shaking up the noncommercial sector of the aviation industry over the past few years, travelers have more ways than ever to enjoy the perks of private flights without the historically prohibitive price tag.
  — Blane Bachelor, Outside Online, 21 June 2021
• However, the statute protects all noncommercial signs and banners, which includes the political variety.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
• Google’s cloud-computing business uses DeepMind’s technology, but some of the unit’s biggest successes have been noncommercial.
  — Parmy Olson, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• Civil Code Section 4710 does not give political signs less protection than other noncommercial signs.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
• The Carlsbad City Council met Tuesday and approved changing city policy to prohibit temporary political and other noncommercial signs on public property and in the public right of way.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• The bill was written with different requirements for commercial and noncommercial vehicles.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024