How to Use premise in a Sentence

premise

1 of 2 noun

• They were asked to leave the premises.
• The premises were searched by the police.
• He disagreed with her premise.
• The company leases part of the premises to smaller businesses.
• In the end, the film is more than its excellent premise.
  — WIRED, 16 June 2023
• Now The premise of The Diplomat is a fish-out-of-water story.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 25 May 2023
• In this case, though, the very premise of the show finds itself at odds with the Sheridan house style.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• But the brilliance of these sketches never comes from the premise alone.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
• The movie itself isn't shying away from the premise either.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 16 May 2023
• The premise was to bring back a sense of Black joy and community to Fort Greene Park.
  — Felice León, Essence, 15 June 2023
• The premise: Earth is destroyed by aliens, and a few survivors need to start over and get it right this time.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• When the employee left the premises to pump, the restaurant fired her.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 25 May 2023
• Their protest echoes the premise of Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play.
  — EW.com, 15 Mar. 2024
• What is Fix My Flip about? For first-time viewers, the premise of the show is straightforward.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 4 May 2023
• The faulty premise that my job is just excavating a street.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• With the Writers Guild of America strike, that premise has broken the fourth wall.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The movie's premise is that John Dolittle can hear animals from a young age.
  — Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
• And with it, the very premise and promise that led to the establishment of the state was suddenly put in doubt.
  — Avner Cohen, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2023
• They were shot in cold blood inside the premises of the Parish, where there were no belligerents.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2023
• That appears to be the premise behind Paramount+'s revival Frasier.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
• The premise is to ensure the conference’s top two teams play for the Mountain West championship.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
• Serbs tried to prevent them from taking over the premises, but the police fired tear gas to disperse them.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 May 2023
• However, the premise alone isn’t enough to convince Handelman to back a film.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
• Or can an omni-rave this vast even have a unifying premise?
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024
• The premise is simple: Ten people are dropped off alone in remote wilderness.
  — Eric Barker, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Wolski surprised some by saying the premise of the question may be faulty.
  — Will Tizard, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• That can leave it feeling at times like a premise in search of the objects to suit it, with the occasional head-scratcher wedged in.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• La Maison may document a fictional brand, but the premise surely rings close to the truth.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 20 July 2023
• Better Together Most of these apps are based on the central premise that most of us would rather talk to family or close friends than with a pretty stranger shilling snack boxes.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 8 Apr. 2024
• Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.
  — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024

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premise

2 of 2 verb

• The move is premised on the campaign's goal of playing to the strengths of Biden and Harris.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
• This trade is premised on a half-full/half-empty view of Kyrie.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 23 Aug. 2017
• Even then, it was premised on the exclusion of black people.
  — Park MacDougald, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Apr. 2018
• All of this is premised on the idea that this is all there is to the disinformation campaign.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
• The Trump Tower session was more than that; it was premised on dirt-digging that didn’t pan out.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 17 May 2018
• But in 2016, the United States elected a politician whose campaign was premised on doom and gloom.
  — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Yet from the Deep South came an entirely new style premised on three-chord laments told in a minor key.
  — Eric Althoff, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• The McCarts' federal complaint is premised on falsehoods and at odds with the true facts.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 5 July 2017
• Why not stay inside and play a board game premised on how the kind of flooding the city faced over the weekend will only get worse in the coming decades?
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• The treatment is premised on the idea that plasma from survivors should be rich in the antibodies that have helped them to defeat the virus.
  — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2020
• Today, any deal to withdraw U.S. troops will be premised on recognition that the Taliban have the right to a role in ruling Afghanistan.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2019
• And Donald Trump’s ascent was premised on that crisis of public trust.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
• New Right conservatism was premised to a great extent on the idea that the social fabric was torn to pieces by the tumultuous 1960s.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
• But Warren’s advisers say her campaign was always premised on the long game.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• This time, Nikki Haley hoped for a shocker; indeed, her campaign was premised on it.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
• It is premised on the idea that partisanship is bad, consensus is good, and that most Americans would like to meet in the middle.
  — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
• All of this, however, is premised on Facebook having access to the payment data of its users.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 18 June 2019
• But Trump premised his economic policy on wiping out the trade gap.
  — Josh Boak and Hope Yen, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
• That’s the dream on which this Ravens season is premised, the hope that will make this football September more interesting than most.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2023
• Eric Hjalmarson, who is in his second year as head coach, was away from the camp premises when the incident took place.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 17 July 2019
• The judge also implies that a defense premised on White House interference may fall short.
  — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2018
• It was premised, a senior Biden official said, on elections taking place.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Feldman scenario is clearly premised on the Democrats winning back at least the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections.
  — vanityfair.com, 12 Apr. 2017
• Crucially, those payouts were premised on there not being a major crash in those world markets.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• Specifically, Mr. Trump’s message to voters was premised on the idea that the Electoral College would decide the winner.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2017
• The law of speech is premised on certain (often unspoken) assumptions about the way the speech market operates.
  — George Will, National Review, 20 Sep. 2017
• This might seem impossibly distant in the present moment, but the only way forward is premised on the equal rights of Palestinians and Israelis.
  — Curbed, 20 Oct. 2023
• That translates into a bet against corporate bonds at Saba, premised on the view that subdued yield spread makes a wager against credit too juicy to pass up.
  — Lu Wang, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• The pay cabler argues that the legal claims are premised on an old agreement that has been fully performed by the parties and thus terminated.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2019
• After all, the show is premised on the idea that one person in a couple issues an ultimatum to their partner, telling them to either propose or take a hike.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 24 Aug. 2023

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