How to Use license in a Sentence

license

1 of 2 noun
Definition of licensenext
Synonyms for licensenext
  • The restaurant's owner applied for a license to sell liquor.
  • His job as a reporter gives him license to go anywhere and ask anything.
  • Texas has the most hunting license holders this year of any state with 1.17 million.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The woman refused to take a breath test and had her license suspended.
    — cleveland, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But researchers were quick to note their finding shouldn't be a license for men to seek out the therapy.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • Trending on Billboard Putting on a great live show has given the band license to play with their shows’ set lists.
    — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Check for a state license lookup tool to see if a provider or setting has the appropriate license.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Open a sandwich shop (already in progress, score!), bike across Greece, get your pilot’s license.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The license to Finland is the 11th adaptation of the format globally.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 June 2023
  • That could boost its efforts to secure a U.K. banking license.
    — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Owners must be based in Mesa and already have a city business license to apply.
    — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The first step is purchasing a sportfishing license and king salmon stamp.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
  • Haack appeared to have also changed her last name to Hall on her real estate license.
    — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • State officials confirmed the breach had extended to about 90% of the state’s driver’s license and ID card files.
    — Staff and Nerdwallet, oregonlive, 16 June 2023
  • Now Android users have the option to store a digital license on Google Wallet.
    — Alecia Taylor, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2023
  • The license will allow the facility to take in four children per staff member.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
  • Some states add to the burden by creating new licenses.
    — Daryl James, Orange County Register, 30 Mar. 2024
  • America’s Dairyland, fittingly, is the only state in the U.S. that requires a license to make and sell cheese.
    — Jacqueline Kehoe, Saveur, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Many who attend them are given license to express their hatreds and their fears.
    — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The Authors Guild is heading that way, with plans in motion to unveil a platform for its members to opt in to the offering of a blanket license.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
  • With the award of the license to the Ak-Chin Indian Community, all 10 licenses for tribes have been awarded.
    — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The publication wanted to know whether that would prevent Newell from having a liquor license.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • According to a police report obtained by the Tribune, the man who shot and killed Joseph has a license to own and conceal his possession of firearms.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The Northern California group will have to be granted a license, which means any major hiccups to get the track ready could derail the effort.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Travelers put their driver’s license into a slot that reads the card or place their passport photo against a card reader.
    — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 15 May 2023
  • Last year, Portugal moved to stop issuing new licenses for short-term rentals and also scrapped the Golden Visa.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 3 Jan. 2024
  • As is the case with traditional TV, budgets, license fees if a show comes from an outside studio and other factors play a role.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Depending on the nature of the content, the license could also include a right to create new programming from the licensed content.
    — Eric Bergner, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2023
  • The increase coincided with an uptick in new gun licenses.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The caterers would also need to acquire a city business license and ensure their operations do not block parking spaces.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
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license

2 of 2 verb
  • The restaurant has now been licensed to sell liquor.
  • The company licensed its name to others.
  • Reddit even licensed its name to RIF for a few years, for a fee.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Jericho Share was not licensed to sell insurance in the state.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
  • If a venue has licensing agreements in place, the venues’ artists are free to cover any song from the PROs’ repertory.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In other words, as part of the arrangement, the project agreed to pay a certain amount of dough for licensing his music.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Musk has spoken about licensing FSD to competitors in the past.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 July 2023
  • That standard does not apply to cash buyers, who do not always have to be licensed.
    — Byard Duncan, ProPublica, 17 May 2023
  • Agreeing to license their music comes down to a few elements, TJ says.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Jobs saw the software and licensed it for the LaserWriter, which was announced in January, 1985.
    — Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Most of that comes from content licensed from other platforms.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Northview Village was the largest skilled nursing facility in St. Louis, licensed for up to 320 beds.
    — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Such programs are licensed by the state and operators can care for up to 14 children at a time, sometimes some as young as 2 weeks old.
    — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • The practice of licensing for streaming never went away.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Also of note: Peacock has licensed many of Nolan’s other films, which will debut on the streaming service Feb. 1.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Arad was no longer allowed to make new deals or license any characters to other studios.
    — Joanna Robinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
  • She was officially licensed by June, and the show started shooting a mere five months later.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And because of Bulger, agents were licensed to release CHSs to their fates without a moment’s notice.
    — Brett Forrest, Time, 7 June 2023
  • The campaign features photos of Jenner out and about, captured by real paparazzi and licensed by the label.
    — Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The show licensed a TikTok from someone who was convinced Taylor Tomlinson was conned into hosting this show (and that @midnight ran in the ’90s).
    — Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The wildly popular show has been a fixture on the Strip for 18 years and was the only live show that was licensed to use the Beatles’ music catalog.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The state requires people licensed to carry handguns to keep them hidden from public view.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • According to state records, the facility was first licensed in 1969.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Officially licensed depictions of a sports logo with a fine-art feel and price tag to match is a novel concept.
    — Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 1 Feb. 2024
  • This conversation reminds me of the copyright problems that came up in the early days of hip-hop and sampling, when there wasn’t much of a structure for licensing any of that stuff.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • After that, those licensed to cultivate can begin growing the plants.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • If Starr licensed her image and voice, the company could build a Jenna-bot that spits out custom photos, voice notes and messages on demand.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Drake, for example, could license out his discography so fans can conjure Drake-like AI croonings of their own.
    — WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • The animal rights group said the breeder was only licensed to breed and sell animals, not exhibit them.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Nepal laid the foundations for its cannabis tourism industry in 1961, taxing and licensing drug sales from Kathmandu stores that became the talk of the hippie trail.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2023

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