How to Use rent in a Sentence

rent

1 of 2 verb

• Do you own or rent?
• We rented them the upstairs apartment in our house.
• We rented our friends' cottage for the month of August.
• The cottage rents for $400 a week.
• The team still has to make sure that rent for the premises is paid each month.
  — Charlotte Lytton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• The rental agreement for the car showed that it was rented by a man named Luis Rivera.
  — Alison Lynn, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Emmons hopes to rent out the farmhouse for short-term stays.
  — Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
• The couple said a tourist once bought a young goat from them and rented a truck to get it home.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
• They’ve been kept rather well, although they’ve been rented out over the years.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
• The airport is the best place to rent a car, with a number of large companies here.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2023
• Her friends have rented out a theater, so now the pressure’s on.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• John and a friend were trying to rent a van at the Hertz outlet near the Villa Borghese.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Guests can also rent a lounge chair for $20 or a pool float for $10 to float on the water while watching the movie.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• And an 18-year-old student of Amacher's moved in, renting out one of his rooms.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
• The cost of renting a car for a week in Birmingham has almost doubled in the last year.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• When the time came in late July and August, some who were renting from vanlords didn’t have the keys to their RVs.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Now, the ride-hailing firm wants to offer drivers a way to rent a car from their neighbor.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Subscribers can rent six pieces per month—from puffer jackets to evening gowns to jumpsuits.
  — Leigh-Ann Jackson, wsj.com, 24 Oct. 2023
• The view from Neo Lu’s window in one of the buildings rented by the scam operation.
  — Isabelle Qian, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
• The pump may be rented or bought, and it can be obtained before or after birth.
  — Mary Beth Gahan, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• Those who’d like to stay more active can also rent a kayak and explore the coastline from the water.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 12 Feb. 2024
• Instead, his cousin was found selling crack out of a trailer rented by Lanieux, who wasn’t home at the time.
  — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023
• Taiga has rented a berth to demo its jet ski at Westpoint Harbor in the southern part of the Bay Area.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Moore rents in the neighborhood and had seen many friends and neighbors priced out of the area, and feared that a huge new complex would make the problem worse.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
• That means more Gen Zers are renting for longer, even as those costs creep higher and higher, too.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2024
• The rooftop deck might be rented for folks wanting to watch fireworks from the ballpark, Walton said.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023
• Those looking to further save on their road trip can avoid the extra costs that come with renting a car.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023
• New York will spend $25 million in state funds to rent homes for thousands of asylum seekers.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
• Don says his original plan had been to buy one or two more properties to rent out.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2024
• At night, a hip crowd often takes over the mics in the karaoke rooms of Kapow in Mizner Park, which can be rented for private parties.
  — Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024

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rent

2 of 2 noun

• Now, the price of the space up for rent on the map will include all fees.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Yesterday was the worst day of the month for many people — rent day.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2023
• The median gross rent is $2,762, according to the city.
  — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• In November rents dropped in Manhattan for the first time in 27 months.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
• Tenants have struggled with rising rents in the Portland metro area over the last few years.
  — oregonlive, 17 May 2023
• Cowell Beach is just out back, and Club Ed surf school sets up a trailer here to rent boards and offer lessons.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 July 2023
• The latter is about what’s necessary for the deposit and first month’s rent on an apartment.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• As of August, the median rent across the U.S. hovered around a record-high of $2,052 per month, according to Rent.com.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Lockers and mobile charging units for rent in VIP lounge.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2024
• Effective rents are falling, too, by 0.04% in the first quarter.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
• An increase in rent is to blame for the restaurant's closing, the announcement reveals.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
• The share of median household income in the New York area eaten up by the median rent rose from 35% to 37% in that time.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 23 Sep. 2023
• That meant that 1,300 vouchers that could have gone to pay someone’s monthly rent weren’t being used.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• What a tenant owes can include rent, late payment fees and any other charges described in the lease.
  — AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• Now, concerns about commuting costs, gas prices and rent are often front of mind.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Some are in deep medical debt, while others are struggling to pay rent.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• Big investors have been on an apartment buying spree in the Phoenix area, paying record prices and hiking rents.
  — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• Ryanair recently bought 25 homes near its Dublin headquarters to house its new hires due to the city’s tough rent crisis.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
• This was our Christmas check to do our shopping, paying rent and other things.
  — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• The amount of a tax rebate a household will receive will depend on income and whether the applicant rents or owns their home.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2023
• Meanwhile, the average U.S. rent has increased 18% over the past five years, according to Pew.
  — TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• Sadly, however, for all the kids who dream of living in the treehouse, just as Kevin Kidney once did, none of the rooms are available for rent.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Affordable rents can be found just outside the city center, and apartments are modern and well equipped.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
• Tenants hoping to catch a break on their rents may not be successful anytime soon.
  — USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• Across Utah, rents have soared and home ownership has become a mere fantasy for the middle class.
  — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
• The average rent in Dublin has doubled in the past decade to about $2,200, or two-thirds of the average monthly income in the city, the New York Times reported.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune Europe, 2 Feb. 2024
• As a result, minimum rent was due, the city informed SeaWorld.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
• That’s bad news for commercial office space, rents, and values.
  — Richard McGahey, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Airbnb is tightly restricted while rental caps have forced thousands of landlords to slash rents.
  — Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
• Everyone at the village pays rent, which averages about $385 a month.
  — Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024