RENT in a Sentence

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Of course, five hundred of it went to paying for new stock and repairing the store and paying the rent.

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 Meanings and Examples of RENT
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rent
 n.  payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract
Classic Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
1  In an hour or two the moon would push over the ridge behind the farm, burn a gold-edged rent in the clouds, and then be swallowed by them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The sky was rent with gigantic flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Mr. and Mrs. Whiting had a room there, too, and Mrs. Bonnell was talking of moving in, if she was fortunate enough to rent her house to a Yankee officer and his family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Of course, five hundred of it went to paying for new stock and repairing the store and paying the rent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  I brought 'em to you to sell, because I ain't got no other way of raising money, and if we don't pay our rent by tomorrow night we'll be put out.'
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  It looks so cozy, so inviting and restful, whenever I pass by; and it's for rent.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
7  Very frequently a lodging house keeper would rent the same beds to double shifts of men.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  And when they gave up the house plan and decided to rent, the prospect of paying out nine dollars a month forever they found just as hard to face.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  There was the rent to pay, and still some on the furniture; there was the insurance just due, and every month there was sack after sack of coal.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  Deducting from this the rent, interest, and installments on the furniture, they had left sixty dollars, and deducting the coal, they had fifty.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  Then a long time ago the man came for the rent.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  The family had moved; they had not been able to pay the rent and they had been turned out into the snow, and the house had been repainted and sold again the next week.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  And we owe Aniele for two weeks' rent, and she is nearly starving, and is afraid of being turned out.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  He had lost his house but then the awful load of the rent and interest was off his shoulders, and when Marija was well again they could start over and save.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
15  As it chanced, he had been hurt on a Monday, and had just paid for his last week's board and his room rent, and spent nearly all the balance of his Saturday's pay.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  The property is for rent with an option to buy at any time.
17  Tenants are obligated to pay their rent on time.
18  They were unable to pay the rent, and were evicted from their home.
19  The rent is reasonable, and moreover, the location is perfect.
20  He won't reduce the rent of our house.
21  Tenants who fall behind in their rent risk being evicted.
22  You put your tenancy at risk if you fall behind with the rent.
23  Their landlord has threatened to send in the bailiffs if they don't pay their rent.
24  We must look over the house before we decide to rent it.
25  Every summer we rent a bungalow on Cape Cod for our vacation home.
26  Oh, did I mention that the rent is the same as what I'm paying here?
27  The law allows tenants three legal options to complain about a possible overcharge in rent.
28  Of course, slap-bang in the middle of town the rents are high.
29  Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.
30  They will have to pay much more when rents treble in January.