How to Use license plate in a Sentence

license plate

noun
Definition of license platenext
  • The license plate is designed to bring awareness to the plight of the Great Salt Lake and ways to save it.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Police traced the truck’s license plate number to the Berea man.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Both the front license plate and city emblem had been taped over.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2022
  • Officers were able to track down Jerich through the license plate in the video.
    — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
  • At about the same time, a witness called in with three digits from the truck's license plate.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Schurr tells him the license plate doesn’t match the vehicle.
    — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Surveillance video caught images of the car — and its license plate — used in the heists.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The Washington Post used footage of the license plate from Fox 5 to link the vehicle to the tickets.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Outside, brake scoops replace the fog lights in front, and the rear license plate moves up from the bumper to the trunklid.
    — Phil Berg, Car and Driver, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Fans of the World Games will soon be able to have their own distinctive license plate.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 28 Apr. 2022
  • By the time the two officers reached Nazario’s SUV, the license plate was visible in the rear.
    — Ben Finley, ajc, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The video concluded a view of my license plate, so I’d be assured the car was mine.
    — Allen Adamson, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • The Ring Doorbell captured the entire chain of events and his license plate.
    — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The only marker on a plot of fresh soil in the grass was a license plate that had been removed from the van’s rear bumper.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • There is no license plate on the car, but there is a Pittsburgh Penguins plate frame.
    — Sarah Portney, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Police said the license plate was not registered to the car.
    — Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The car's license plate was also pinged on a radar near Dallas, Texas.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The woman was able to provide a description of the car and its license plate tags.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The woman gave police the man’s and his wife’s license plate numbers.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Martella said his client ran after the car to get the license plate number.
    — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Under the new law, those who evade tolls with license plate flippers may face a $2,000 fine.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The caller began to describe the Kia SUV and its license plate number.
    — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Boswell, the man alleged, was acting strangely, which spurred him to write down the license plate number of the truck.
    — Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The two go back and forth when the officer informs him his license plate missing − but as the two look to the bumper of the car, blood drips out of the trunk.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The man drove out of the line, and Patricia, 19, took out her phone to capture the SUV’s make, model and license plate on video.
    — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2022
  • Oh, and there’s a freaking cowboy on Wyoming’s license plates.
    — Allyson Reedy, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Those who pay via app or license plate scan would pay a service fee in addition to the toll.
    — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • What about the rest of the Wisconsin specialty license plates?
    — Journal Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Would your first thought be to swap the license plate or spontaneously and haphazardly repaint the car using house paint?
    — Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Carpino responded with a photograph of her Pet Lover license plate, which raises money for low-cost spay and neuter surgeries.
    — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 6 Dec. 2024

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