How to Use nontransferable in a Sentence

nontransferable

adjective
  • The prize is nontransferable and nonassignable, and noncash prizes cannot be redeemed for cash.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 22 Sep. 2021
  • In a tweet, Amazon Music said that the events are for ages 21 and over, and that the nontransferable tickets are limited to one per person.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Prizes are nontransferable, and Event tickets may not be sold, bartered, or exchanged.
    Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The Cure made its tickets nontransferable to curb scalping.
    Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • To imitate Vaughan, as many have, seems nothing but phony; her sound and style were her thumbprint, nontransferable.
    James Gavin, New York Times, 20 July 2017
  • Fans must be at least 21 years old to enter and there is a limit to one nontransferable ticket per customer, according to the flyer posted to Bey’s website.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Once issued, tickets are nontransferable and may not be reissued once travel has commenced.
    Denisa Protani, baltimoresun.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Artists could make the tickets to their events nontransferable, which would eliminate the secondary market, or band together to push back against some of the worst practices from Ticketmaster/LN.
    Gabriel Smith, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • General-admission floor seats will be nontransferable for any amount of money over face value.
    Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Jade Carey already locked up a second, nontransferable individual spot for the Olympics.
    Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • The permit is nontransferable — the buyer couldn’t give it to a friend for the weekend — but only one permit is needed per family, as long as the family is traveling together across trust land.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2019
  • Full payment is due at booking and is nonrefundable and nontransferable.
    Alison Darosa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • As such, the bookings are nonrefundable and nontransferable.
    Roxane Gay, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Subscription gift cards don’t expire and are nontransferable.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Each state also has its own, nontransferable certification for the peer workforce.
    Lisa Ward, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • In a statement, the State Department said those fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable, even if the application is rejected.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
  • Although obligations to family and friends are nontransferable, a loan at a set interest rate is an asset that can be securitized and traded.
    Astra Taylor, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • But these can be difficult to enforce, and in the case of nontransferable tickets, incredibly inconvenient.
    David Dayen, The New Republic, 15 May 2018
  • The report lists some possible remedies: making tickets nontransferable, to essentially kill the secondary market; capping prices on resales; and improving the disclosure of fees.
    David Dayen, The New Republic, 15 May 2018
  • California remains one of just two states whose credits are largely nontransferable and nonrefundable.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Apr. 2022
  • This practice violates city Department of Health regulations, because the permits are nontransferable.
    Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Is there something unreachable and nontransferable deep inside each of us, something uniquely human that even advanced science and artificial intelligence can’t fathom or duplicate?
    Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Options for this route would be to make tickets nontransferable, allow resale only at face value and only on the primary seller’s resale platform and use technology to attempt to identify real fans by looking for irregular behavior on their accounts.
    Emma Fox, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Additionally, proposed law defines ‘nontransferable ticketing’ as prohibiting the resell or exchange of a ticket or limiting the ticket holder to exchange the ticket exclusively through means provided by the ticket issuer.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 May 2023

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