Used in a Sentence

blanche

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for blanche.

Editorial note

But a bike is not carte-blanche to do whatever you want.

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Quick take

A female given name from French.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of blanche gathered in one view.

noun

A female given name from French.

noun

A surname from French.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blanche.

noun

A female given name from French.

noun

A surname from French.

Example sentences

1

But a bike is not carte-blanche to do whatever you want.

2

School newspapers will have carte blanche to drag your name through the mud in any way they can.

3

It's Democrats who are concerned about giving corporations carte blanche to sue in secret courts for loss of expected profits.

4

And this gives you carte blanche to have chicken for dinner and feel absolutely no remorse.

5

On the one hand that doesn't give someone carte blanche to do whatever they want.

6

This solution probably isn't particularly novel, but it's probably better than carte blanche location access, in the opinion of most people.

7

Only the Reddit staff and Victoria know what really happened to cause her dismissal; to offer her carte-blanche after that seems rash.

8

The first bit still needs oversight rather than the security agency having carte blanche.

9

Section 215 is the piece of legislation the NSA used as justification for its carte blanche collection of data in the US.

10

If you give developers carte blanche permission to add whatever they feel is necessary, you're using your business success/failure to teach them.

11

You do have to have be careful when applying this carte blanche on procedurally generated terrain, as you can end up with all sorts of unrealistic/dangerous/fun?

12

There is no reason your app needs to run with carte blanche access to every table in the database, especially when your app is primarily driven by reads.

Quote examples

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For some people in this category, though, giving them carte blanche to decide what to do means that they feel they can finally "do it right".

2

Her statement that “if the euro fails, Europe fails” was understood by Athens as a carte blanche Not really, they know she is lying.

3

So I don't really agree that it's some crude "anyone can just pay and receive carte blanche access at the airport" scheme.

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> So I don't really agree that it's some crude "anyone can just pay and receive carte blanche access at the airport" scheme.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use blanche in a sentence?

But a bike is not carte-blanche to do whatever you want.

What does blanche mean?

A female given name from French.

What part of speech is blanche?

blanche is commonly used as noun.