How to Use license plate in a Sentence

license plate

noun
  • The license plate is designed to bring awareness to the plight of the Great Salt Lake and ways to save it.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Police traced the truck’s license plate number to the Berea man.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Surveillance video caught images of the car — and its license plate — used in the heists.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The Washington Post used footage of the license plate from Fox 5 to link the vehicle to the tickets.
    Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Outside, brake scoops replace the fog lights in front, and the rear license plate moves up from the bumper to the trunklid.
    Phil Berg, Car and Driver, 30 Dec. 2022
  • There is no license plate on the car, but there is a Pittsburgh Penguins plate frame.
    Sarah Portney, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The caller began to describe the Kia SUV and its license plate number.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • What about the rest of the Wisconsin specialty license plates?
    Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
  • After running the license plate, deputies learned the SUV was stolen from a Victorville rental car business.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The detective saw the license plate number on the vehicle.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • He was released with a ticket for a missing license plate.
    Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In order for a new license plate to be made, a state lawmaker has to propose a bill that pitches the plate.
    Dylan Wickman, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The driver left the scene, but a license plate was left behind, according to the affidavit.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • For months, out-of-state license plates, common in the neighborhood, drew second glances.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • States with the most specialty license plates The Old Line State loves license plates.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
  • How about a world-record-breaking $15 million license plate?
    Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Bring a hometown flag or license plate to hang on the ceiling — and bills, too, because Floyd's is cash-only.
    Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The service is provided by Flock, one of the nation’s largest license plate reader providers.
    Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The sedan’s license plate led authorities to Foreman, whose cellphone records put him in the area of the shooting, police said.
    Aria Jones, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Five days after the tragedy, on Nov. 18, Kohberger changed the license plate on his vehicle.
    Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The license plate and passenger side of the vehicle were covered in mud, the woman told police.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Investigators were able to track the SUV because the car passed a license plate reader.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • But the documents show his car triggered a license plate reader in Loma on Dec. 13.
    Fox News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • According to police, the license plate had been stolen out of Springfield Township.
    Simone Jameson, The Enquirer, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Amacher claimed his truck, unlike the one in the video, had a license plate and Superman decal stickers near both front doors.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • And get this: The parking robot can even identify the license plate of your vehicle and recognize and judge the size, weight and shape of your car.
    Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The officer discovered that the truck did not have a valid fuel use tax sticker and that the trailers had license plates that expired in 2018.
    cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
  • One afternoon in March, as the worker drove a roommate’s Jeep to the grocery store, a Neillsville police officer ran a random check of the license plates.
    Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023
  • From your house number and street, to license plate and detailed information about your child and their school, these can all be used by predators.
    Chelsie Desouza, Parents, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The driver gave officers the license plate number of the truck, which was registered to a trucking company.
    Zach Mentz, cleveland, 21 July 2023

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