How to Use vanity plate in a Sentence

vanity plate

noun

• Want to show the person at the stoplight next to you what your vanity plate says?
  — Austin Irwin and Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2021
• The truck has a silver fleur-de-lis vanity plate on the front bumper, police said.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• The front bumper displayed the fleur-de-lis vanity plate, but police said the rear did not have a license plate.
  — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• The vanity plate on Sheldon Bair’s bright red Camaro gives one pause.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2022
• The vanity plate is permitted because the couple was not driving on a public road.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 20 May 2018
• If Auger chose to get a regular plate, a portion of her vanity plate fee would be refunded to her, according to the letter.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
• Travis McMichael had a vanity plate of the former state flag on the front of his pickup at the time of the shooting, but Walmsley has yet to rule whether that can be presented as evidence at trial.
  — Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 28 Oct. 2021
• The recall letter said Auger had 10 days to surrender her plate with the option to chose another vanity plate at no extra cost or have one assigned to her.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 29 Aug. 2019
• In late 2020, Overington bought a new SUV and decided to celebrate being cancer-free by splurging on a vanity plate.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• The vanity plate is not the best way to serve up a helping of anti-Joe Biden sentiment ... especially if one of the ingredients is an obscenity.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2022
• Caplan’s Honda Fit with the California vanity plate declaring her love of veganism and soon-to-be-expired tags wasn’t on the top of her to do list as a new Oregonian.
  — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2020
• The car had a University of Alabama vanity plate, according to police, and likely damage from striking the girl.
  — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 18 Jan. 2022
• In fact, Tartaro joins a long lineage of people whose vanity plates backfired in spectacular fashion.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2019
• States actively police what vanity plates get approved; Utah alone has rejected around 1,000 plates over the years, and that’s not even counting those turned down for being duplicates of existing plates.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2019
• By introducing the vanity plate as evidence, prosecutors hope to show jurors that race played a key factor in the McMichaels’ decision to chase Arbery.
  — Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 15 Oct. 2021
• The survey is courtesy of Click4reg.co.uk, a company that does a thriving business reselling vanity plates in the U.K., where license plates can be transferred with or without a vehicle from one owner to another.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2019
• The family’s three Volkswagens remained parked in the driveway on Tuesday, with one of them apparently bearing vanity plates that proclaimed the Turpins’ love for Disneyland.
  — Louis Keene, Jennifer Medina and Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• The images show a gray, four-door sedan, but investigators were interested in another vehicle as well, a white full-size SUV with vanity plates whose occupants may have witnessed the crash, according to police.
  — Matthew Walberg, Daily Southtown, 18 June 2018
• Among other rules, Utah prohibits vanity plates that express contempt for any race, religion or political opinion.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2020
• The organization is seeking a restraining order preventing the recall and has also asked that the state's law banning potentially offensive vanity plates be struck down, the paper said.
  — Laura Sky Brown, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024