How to Use proviso in a Sentence

proviso

noun

• He accepted the job with one proviso: he would work alone.
• The proviso was that the show would be produced, gulp, without a script.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 12 June 2023
• Here is a sample of what’s in store this summer, with the proviso that dates are subject to change.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
• Even so, the promise of those violins turns out to come with lots of provisos.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• The proviso that getting well would be hard is one of the principles of healing that Jamison now holds dear.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 22 May 2023
• With that proviso, however, there is much to praise in the $52 billion, two-year budget deal.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 17 May 2021
• Mayor Steve Vaus moved that an appointment be made with the proviso that the applicants sign a pledge not to run in the next election.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
• My sister signed the adoption papers with the proviso that her identity as the mother not be revealed to the child.
  — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• The chronically late dinner guest can be invited once more on the proviso that the start time of the evening is honored.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
• That should be with the proviso that Whitlock returns to the rotation next season.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
• Stettheimer is, in this way, more Goopist than avant-gardist, with the proviso that Goopism was a kind of American avant-garde.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Before the 1992 season, Sanders added a proviso to his Falcons contract that allowed him to stay with the Braves as long as their season went on.
  — Ben Baskin, The MMQB, 14 July 2017
• But the Patriots have pledged not to franchise Brady, and there’s a proviso in his new contract that prohibits them from doing so.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• But there must be one proviso: that Hamas is not in a position to threaten Israel ever again.
  — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
• Yet the law has provisos that allow the president to decide whether, for the sake of American interests, the law should be enforced.
  — Frances Robles, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2016
• At the start of 2020, Courtney Barnett was looking forward to a year of open-ended songwriting, with just one proviso.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
• There is a special proviso in the new DH mandate that allows teams who let pitchers hit for themselves remain as the DH once they are finished pitching.
  — Mark Faller, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
• Looked pretty good too, with the proviso that quarterbacks are supposed to look good when they can’t be tackled and contact is minimal.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
• With this proviso: Limited and proportional strikes on matériel do not go far enough.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• But there is an important proviso: offices need plenty of nooks.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
• One major proviso: The British government must make more compromises to seal an agreement in the coming hours.
  — Raf Casert, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• My sister was given our mother's jewelry with the proviso that pieces be given to the granddaughters.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• One can’t help but wonder if also buried somewhere in the fine print was a proviso that a gilded hangar be constructed on school grounds for the emperor’s gold chariot.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Such objections led to the withdrawal of the proviso from the appropriations bill.
  — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
• In its forecasts, the EU included the important proviso that it was based on a status quo, which is likely to change in light of Brexit developments.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• One proviso: The paper’s findings are based on data from the monthly household survey of employment, not the payroll report.
  — Rich Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023
• With these provisos: First, Holiday wasn’t white, and didn’t have any cushioning money behind her.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• The decision included a proviso that any employees who take a payout from the fund have to waive their right to receive whatever damages come out of the state-level DFEH suit.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• Five years later, the two sides reached an agreement with an unexpected proviso: The estate would unlock television rights to the books, and the two parties would shop them together.
  — Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
• The weekly report on Thursday included the same proviso.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024