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"Franchise" in a Sentence (23 examples)
This movie is a reboot of the franchise.
After the third film, this franchise is terrible.
She runs a franchise of a popular restaurant chain.
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is the latest entry in the Dishonored franchise.
The Washington Nationals defeated the Houston Astros 6-2 Wednesday in the deciding seventh game of the World Series to claim their first Major League Baseball championship in franchise history.
One of my favourite sci-fi authors is Ursula K. Le Guin. She is famous for her Earthsea franchise.
Since my teenage years, I have enjoyed the Dune franchise of Frank Herbert—the literature and movies. The setting is many thousands of years into the future, as humankind has expanded throughout the galaxy. The official language of the Imperium is called Galach, a descendant of Earth's English, Russian, and other languages. Meanwhile, on the desert planet Arrakis, the Fremen eke a living as desert people. The Fremen language is a descendant of Earth's Arabic.
Larry Niven's sci-fi franchise of Ringworld and Known Space stimulated my teenage years. Ringworld was a gigantic structure, a ribbon habitat that encircled a sun. I imagined, as I bicycled around my home of Lulu Island, that the terrain was part of Ringworld. Niven reinforced my belief that some aliens did not have humanoid shape.
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea franchise is very stimulating. As a Filipino, I am from an archipelagic country, and I can relate to the islander culture and supposedly brown people of magical Earthsea. Publishers market this franchise as sci-fi, but it seems also fantasy—maybe "science fantasy" as some call it.
The new sci-fi franchise, The Expanse, fascinates me, although I have seen only snippets of it in videos and writing. It reinforces my tendency to think that humanity will spend a long time, centuries, within the Solar System. Travel outside the Sun's peripheries will be difficult, as faster-than-light travel seems impossible with current science. Travelling at the speed of light to the nearest star system, the triple-star Alpha Centauri, would take more than four years if it were possible.
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a. 1872, William H. Seward, debate Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people.
McDonald’s has exported its franchise.
Churches and monasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals.
The Whalers' home city of Hartford was one of many for the franchise.
He devoted almost his full cricket career to playing county cricket for seven franchises until he earned a maiden callup at 35.
Once a brand has established a consumer franchise and a brand image, it takes a long time for these to decay, as the image is maintained more by people's personal familiarity with and usage of the brand than by external marketing stimuli.
Warren Buffett teaches us that the best business to own, the one with the best long-term prospects is a franchise - one that sells a product or service that is needed or desired, has no close substitute, and yields profits that are unregulated.
Certain other industries have no plant. Value derives entirely from brand franchise. (Consulting firms, engineering firms, and advertising agencies do not talk about the value of their franchise. Instead, they talk about "reputation".)
the Star Wars franchise
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In a Commons Written Reply to Shadow Rail Minister Tan Dhesi, regarding any assessment of the impact on open access operators by the decision to move away from franchising […], Heaton-Harris highlighted that non-franchised operators run trains without a contractual relationship with Government.
The ad originators are planning to franchise the campaign to gay groups all across the country.
This winter, there is a diverse buffet of movies for you to choose from. Most people order the widely franchised cheeseburger because of its biggie-sized portion, its reliably adequate flavor, and its bright, attractive packaging. Don’t get me wrong; on opening day, I’ll be sitting in the front row savoring the cheeseburgery deliciousness of “Quantum of Solace” and “Twilight.” But after the initial cinematic hunger subsides, the diner, like myself, who craves a heartier meal, will take a second trip through the buffet line and search for a meal with a more complex flavor and memorable substance.
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