rent

Example Sentences

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“She works in Torrance and can’t afford to rent an apartment close to her job,” her mother says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

I support having some way of modulating that asymmetry, such as through rent stabilization.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Not a single low-wage 20 company has median pay even close to the income level needed to afford the current U.S. average rent for a two-bedroom apartment.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

"You need a big site, then you have a lot of land rent you have to pay. People want these big rollercoasters, it takes huge amounts of power," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone