carte

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“He is totally beholden to the base, and they are totally opposed to giving the U.S. carte blanche,” Rahman said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

One might argue that Fennell’s stunning images and the familiar emotions they convey are a happy accident, the result of millions of dollars and a director given carte blanche to play as she sees fit.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026

Our A.I. future probably won’t be à la carte, and for now we’ve already ordered the whole thing.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026

The decades-old agreement, updated in 2004, already essentially gives Washington carte blanche to ramp up its troop deployments provided it informs the authorities in Denmark and Greenland in advance.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

The idea is to do over Verity’s false carte d’identité to turn Kittyhawk—I mean me—into Käthe, I mean Katharina Habicht.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein