Sentence examples for was rent from inspiring English sources
verb
To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
But the "whole" he addressed was rent.
(The winner 13 years ago was Rent).
"First we thought it was rent controlled," he said.
A generation ago Peru's social fabric was rent apart by economic collapse and political violence.
Ms. Korecka's old apartment was rent controlled, and she paid $300 a month.
One school of interpretation maintains that French society under the ancien régime was rent by class war.
BALTIMORE — The Democracy was rent in twain to-day [June 25] at the first session of the National Convention.
In one notorious example from 1980, the label on a measure was "rent control" (later changed to simply "rent").
Most popular of all was "rent to buy", which allows renters to purchase the property they live in over time.
A curtain had fallen, my holy of holies was rent asunder, and new gods had to be installed.
One could say that what was rent asunder by "Modern Starts" is here being judiciously reassembled and reconfigured.
