How to Use unlicensed in a Sentence

unlicensed

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• Empyreal says Franco also falsely told the judge that some of the pot stores whose cash was in the van were unlicensed.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• The gold is then sold to buyers, some of them unlicensed, who transfer it to smelters in Brazil and abroad for refinement.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• In the video, the deputy explains to the couple that they were pulled over for driving an unlicensed vehicle without the tag on it.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Pot’s acrid odor is everywhere in New York, as are unlicensed cannabis shops, which the city can’t control.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Perhaps he was convinced that the moment would come when his unlicensed status would come to light.
  — Yoko Ogawa, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
• Just last year, Abbott signed a law that allows the unlicensed carry of handguns.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 26 May 2022
• Wi-Fi 6E is the name for devices that operate in the 6-gigahertz (GHz) band, a new swath of unlicensed spectrum.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2022
• The kiosks were allegedly unlicensed and profitable in Ohio.
  — Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Retailers sell such products in unlicensed dispensaries, during pop-up events, and on the streets across the state.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• According to research firm Muso, the first season of the show was viewed millions of times more than that, all via unlicensed streams and downloads.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
• Such unlicensed agents, Ranyard said, charge fees to would-be adoptive parents.
  — Mary Pflum, NBC News, 3 July 2023
• Marquez likes to call to offer tips on how to detect scammers and to avoid unlicensed contractors.
  — Juan Carlos Chavez, Sun Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
• Enforcement of non-compliant and unlicensed owners could be a challenge for the city.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
• Police said the patron who fired a gun, Amori Davis, 27, was arrested and charged with possessing an unlicensed firearm.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• The same thing has happened with stand-up comics, mimes and rodeo clowns, not to mention those people who walk around in unlicensed costumes and body paint taking tips to pose for photos with tourists.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• He was last arrested in 2003 on drug and weapons charges, and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for carrying an unlicensed firearm.
  — Ryan W. Briggs, Max Marin and William Bender, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
• If the guard is employed by the store, they likely are unlicensed and unregulated.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2023
• If legal abortions are too hard to get, then women will seek out unsafe abortions from unlicensed providers.
  — Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 6 May 2022
• The owner of the truck was cited for wrongful entrustment for allowing the unlicensed driver to operate the truck.
  — cleveland, 1 May 2022
• Most of the deaths identified by The Times took place on unlicensed farms where employers were unknown or unlikely to step forward.
  — Paige St. John and Marisa Gerber, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
• He was convicted as an adult of possession of an unlicensed firearm, police said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• This delay paved the way for thousands of unlicensed shops to emerge across the state, selling cannabis products and flourishing in the absence of legal dispensaries, with the state struggling to crack down on them.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• A lot of the unlicensed shops looked like bodegas, sat in storefronts that previously were bodegas, and seemed to be run by bodega guys who had found a way to make better money.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The government has given a variety of reasons for the seizures, including that some boats were unlicensed.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 2 July 2022
• Gun runners acquired firearms from licensed and unlicensed dealers at gun shows, local court records show.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
• The state hopes to convert many from the unlicensed market into licensed sellers by including drug war victims from day one.
  — Andrew Ward, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2022
• When legalization passed, there was a sort of cash grab, and landlords began renting to unlicensed sellers.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The Times reported that the unlicensed tattoo artist, 20-year-old Austin Smith, was arrested along with Thomas when pictures of the boy's tattoo circulated on the news and online.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2022
• FrontLine has licensed counselors and social workers, as well as unlicensed staff who have gone through training to answer these calls.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• The state Senate in June passed a proposal to increase fines for illicit sales and make unlicensed selling a misdemeanor.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024