LEASE in a Sentence

Learn LEASE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

30 example sentences for LEASE, such as:

1. He leased his home for the summer.
2. They lease the site from the council.
3. The lease expires / runs out next year.
4. They've got a lease with five years to run.
5. The lease is granted for a set term of years.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEASE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lease
 n.  rent; charter; engage for service under a term of contract
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Frank," she said, after a stormy interview with Hugh over his missing workmen, "I've about made up my mind that I'll lease convicts to work the mills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  I'm going to get Johnnie Gallegher and lease me some convicts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  They took a new lease on life when they marched out with the Home Guard and it seems to me that they've gotten younger and more peppery ever since.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
4  He had reserved the house and half the garden, and building a wall between the garden and the workshops, had let them upon lease with the pavilions at the bottom of the garden.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family.
5  The lease was drawn up for three, six, or nine years by the new tenant, who, according to the rule of the proprietor, paid six months in advance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal.
6  I shall let a seven years' lease of Everingham.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged to Cosette.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET
8  The Secretary of War could issue rations, clothing, and fuel to the destitute, and all abandoned property was placed in the hands of the Bureau for eventual lease and sale to ex-slaves in forty-acre parcels.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
9  When Scarlett leased ten convicts, five for each of her mills, Archie made good his threat and refused to have anything further to do with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
10  They were a thin, unwholesome lot, Scarlett thought, peering sharply at them, and when she had leased them, so short a time before, they were an upstanding crew.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  And it hurt him so when I ran the mills and built the saloon and leased convicts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  With the congressman's secretary and the teacher Carol leased a small flat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  In the states of the far South the labor of convicts is leased to contractors, and when there are not convicts enough they have to be supplied.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
14  Here it was that Pierce's Port Royal plan of leased plantations and guided workmen pointed out the rough way.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
15  So, too, Colonel Eaton, the superintendent of Tennessee and Arkansas, ruled over one hundred thousand freedmen, leased and cultivated seven thousand acres of cotton land, and fed ten thousand paupers a year.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  Don't try so hard,the best things come when you lease expect them to.
2  The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already contracted to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.
3  The lease stated that tenants should maintain the property in good condition.
4  They took out a lease on a seven-acre field.
5  They've got a lease with five years to run.
6  At the end of the lease, the land will be returned to the original owner.
7  His grandchildren have given him a new lease of life.
8  The lease expires / runs out next year.
9  They lease the site from the council.
10  The lease is granted for a set term of years.
11  We provide details of commercial and residential property available for lease.
12  When his lease went up for renewal in December, I summoned all my courage to sign my name alongside his on the new one.
13  He leased his home for the summer.