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
• 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
• There was no money to pay a baby sitter, or to sublet a room.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Mathus and his wife had worked out an arrangement to sublet a place near City Park.
  — Keith Spera, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• 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 school would also be allowed to sublet to nonprofits.
  — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 27 July 2017
• Last spring, my boyfriend sublet a spare room in his apartment to an aspiring model.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The music venue that was subletting from the man initially planned to ban him from the premises during shows, said Katie Miller, 25, one of the people who ran the venue.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Last week, Madonna offered them her New York City apartment to sublet.
  — Spencer Neale, Washington Examiner, 7 Feb. 2020
• Webster wondered if Deyko wanted to come see the space and possibly sublet it.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2020
• 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
• In March, 2016, Hamilton sublet her apartment, to save money.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• 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
• Often, the only way to offset the cost of unused space is to sublet it to another company.
  — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• Pelletier’s remaining team had packed away the last of her decor in January, as Evofem had been lining up a deal to sublet the rest of its space; then the tenant dropped out.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Breckenridge sublet his apartment and moved back home to Fallbrook.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The space was eventually sublet by the Carter Burgess engineering firm.
  — Sandra Baker, star-telegram.com, 19 June 2017
• That allows investors — and us — to take a look under the hood at this office market behemoth, which sublets office space to startups and other types of firms.
  — Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• This could allow the nonprofit to end their contract or sublet their current space, creating a double benefit.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 May 2023

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sublet

2 of 2 noun

• I'm looking for a sublet since I'm only going to be here for the summer.
• On this issue, your colleagues and good friends in the Senate are bought and paid-for sublets.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The downtown sublets were first reported by CoStar News.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Craigslist: a place to shop for used Ikea furniture, summer apartment sublets and … insulin?
  — oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2020
• His arrival in Tel Aviv provides a chaotic first impression: His sublet is still occupied and messy due to a date mix-up.
  — Chloe Sarbib, sun-sentinel.com, 9 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• The grant helped defray airfare, her summer sublet and other expenses.
  — Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
• 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
• When actors booked a national tour or a job at a regional theater and sent out emails offering their homes for sublet, Ms. Lee diligently spread the word among her buddies.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• A maker of reusable beverage bottles has quadrupled its office space in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, landing a two-year sublet, the company announced.
  — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2017
• But the modern architecture is only part of the adaptation; the Frick is a house museum, and the Breuer sublet allows curators a unique chance to scramble and reconstitute the collection outside a residential framework.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
• 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
• I'm looking for a sublet since I'm only going to be here for the summer.
• On this issue, your colleagues and good friends in the Senate are bought and paid-for sublets.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024