Example Sentences

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When they were making the film of “Hair,” the music director was subletting my apartment, and they asked me to sing the first four lines in “Walking in Space.”

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2018

The morning after the party, my roommate drove me to a studio apartment on a hilly side street that I was subletting for the next month.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2017

He eventually landed in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where a guy named Patrick was subletting a room in his two-bedroom apartment for a thousand and fifty dollars a month.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

GSI Commerce, which provides online services for retailers like Toys “R” Us, was subletting a 10,000-square-foot loft on Broadway in SoHo in 2011 when the company was acquired by eBay, prompting the need to expand.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2012

A young man working at the building pulled the diary from the trunk and gave it to Lily Koppel, a news assistant at The New York Times who was subletting an apartment in the building.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2012