public domainin a sentence
- The book is now in the public domain and anyone at all can publish it, so Laura's estate won't be seeing any of the proceeds.† (source)
- We're a public domain organization.† (source)
- The reading occupied the attention that she had formerly given to gossip about sweethearts and the experimental retreats that she would go through with her girl friends, not because it was imposed as discipline but because she had lost all interest by then in talking about mysteries that were in the public domain.† (source)
- The sheriff said old Mr. M. F. Sewell was in the public domain, but Mr. Fink said testily he supposed it was his cemetery lot, his granddaddy, and his teeth, and declined forthwith to be arrested.† (source)
- When you're involved with a man like Roarke, personal life becomes public domain.† (source)
- Always in a house of death, Virgie was thinking, all the stories come evident, show forth from the person, become a part of the public domain.† (source)
- Next year, the book will go out of copyright and into the public domain.