SELL in a Sentence
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345 example sentences for SELL, such as:
1. Cry up wine and sell vinegar.
2. I'll sell him the diamond earbobs.
3. We sell a wide range of ales and stouts.
4. They had made a verbal agreement to sell.
5. You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.
2. I'll sell him the diamond earbobs.
3. We sell a wide range of ales and stouts.
4. They had made a verbal agreement to sell.
5. You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.
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Meanings and Examples of SELL
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sell
v. give up for a price or reward
v. be responsible for the sale of
Classic Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1 Her husband had given her the farm and she had managed to sell it, and with that and the alimony she had started a lunch-room at Bettsbridge and bloomed into activity and importance.
2 And I'll sell my boats to some foolish Englishman who thinks he can slip them through.
3 The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.
4 The South had always lived by selling cotton and buying the things it did not produce, but now it could neither sell nor buy.
5 And if you so much as breathe to her where the fighting is, I'll sell you South as sure as gun's iron.
6 You'll go or I'll sell you down the river.
7 You'll never see your mother again or anybody you know and I'll sell you for a field hand too.
8 I'll sell him the diamond earbobs.
9 There's a man named Johnson who has one, way out Peachtree road, and he's anxious to sell it.
10 He needs some cash right away, so he wants to sell and stay and run it for me at a weekly wage.
11 Scarlett O'Hara, the proudest of the proud, trying to sell needlework to the Yankees.
12 Half the money is honestly mine," he continued, "honestly made with the aid of honest Union patriots who were willing to sell out the Union behind its back--for one-hundred-per-cent profit on their goods.
13 It came from Confederate cotton which I managed to run through the blockade and sell in Liverpool at sky-high prices.
14 Frank told me about this man who has a sawmill, a little one out Peachtree road, and he wants to sell it.
15 He's got to have cash money pretty quick and he'll sell it cheap.
Example Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1 We should be able to sell the house at a profit.
2 Surely anyone with marketing gumption should be able to sell good books at any time of year.
3 The only practicable course of action is to sell the company.
4 My father commissioned a real estate agent to sell our house.
5 They had made a verbal agreement to sell.
6 You have no goats, and yet you sell kids.
7 Let's assume the company makes ten pence profit on every widget they sell.
8 He had to sell his car to repay the bank loan.
9 If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
10 They hyped up the crowd with TV to sell their political policy.
11 They sell dried flowers and baskets and that type of thing.
12 Cry up wine and sell vinegar.
13 He was unwilling to make a prediction about which books would sell in the coming year.
14 We sell a wide range of cosmetics and toiletries at a very reasonable price.
15 We sell a wide range of ales and stouts.