How to Use property right in a Sentence

property right

noun

• For the Knoches, the desire to farm the sun on their land is a simple matter of property rights.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• Dear Lizzy, The neighbors have a strip of property right next to our front yard that is maybe 2 feet wide.
  — oregonlive, 17 May 2022
• What are some of the elements that make a property right for Smarter?
  — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• This is a huge win for property rights, federalism, and the rule of law.
  — Daren Bakst, National Review, 2 June 2023
• The feud — like many between neighbors — is, at its core, a spat over property rights.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• In a battle of art vs. property rights, Anderson won the right to paint over Wyland’s work.
  — Daily Pilot, 20 July 2019
• Now, a property right next door to the late musician’s former pad is up for grabs.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2022
• But this was the last protection to their sense of being, to their sense of identity, to not just property rights but job rights.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• Boston Harbor Hotel is a five-star property right on the water with 232 rooms and suites.
  — Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
• This was a liberal issue—the denial of property rights on racial grounds.
  — Steven Friedman, Quartz Africa, 18 Oct. 2019
• The initial space race to the moon brought about the United Nations 1966 treaty, which determined nations could not claim property rights in space.
  — Bret Baier, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Black Desert has a property right to some water as a result of a deal worked out between St. George and the land’s previous owner.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• The right was reserved in those treaties in return for the tribes turning over their property right to nearly all of Western Washington.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 18 Apr. 2018
• The current articulation of the contrast between property rights and the right to live was born in the 19th century.
  — On Barak, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2020
• The group says the new law amounts to the unconstitutional taking of private property rights.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2019
• The city said in the complaint that as long as the toxic chemicals remain at the site, Dallas’ property rights are being infringed upon.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• The developer asked again that the state respect its private property rights.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
• Owners of the buildings argued their property rights were being denied and some simply closed their SROs.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• Among the cases are petitions about land and property rights, noise, religious freedom and from people trying to protect trees along the length of the metro line.
  — Corinne Abrams, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2019
• Second, after subjugated as slaves the North American slave owners, black and white, had a property right in the labor of the slaves.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 10 Apr. 2018
• Including one very special property right here in the United States.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
• Courts have deemed that irrigators have a usufructuary right — a type of property right that allows use of something in the public domain — to the top six feet of water in the lake.
  — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2021
• The injunction against stealing, for example, forms the basis of property rights, says Mr. Whelchel.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2019
• In the Cedar Point case, the union can only enter their property right before and right after working hours and during lunch break, and only during certain times of the year.
  — Evan Gerstmann, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• AstraZeneca’s lawyers argued that Medicare’s new powers amount to a taking of their property rights without due process.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 31 Jan. 2024
• Petersen can challenge the seizure in court before his property rights are forfeited.
  — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 27 Nov. 2019
• Nah, just kidding — this movie is about the real-life story of the guy who secured the intellectual-property rights to the Soviet video game.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
• Justices boosted property rights over concerns about clean water in a May ruling in favor of an Idaho couple who sought to build a house near a lake.
  — Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly and John Flesher, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Smashing windows and setting fires were comments on women’s lack of property rights.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Williams also challenged the argument that enforcing a ban would infringe on the property rights of owners.
  — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024