How to Use auctioneer in a Sentence

auctioneer

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  • Take note of how other buyers bid and listen to the cadence of the auctioneer’s delivery.
    — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Only auctioneers want to whip bidders into auction fever.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 23 Jan. 2020
  • While Kruse's style was more wry and understated, Krone proved to be a live wire auctioneer.
    — Pamela Chelin, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The family hired an auctioneer to sell the family’s belongings to help pay for her then-86-year-old mother’s long-term care facility.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2019
  • When Bonnell is intellectually stimulated or annoyed, which is most of the time, his rate of speech rises to that of a seasoned auctioneer.
    — Trevor Quirk, Wired, 15 Jan. 2020
  • An auctioneer spotted the artwork — which measures just eight inches by ten inches — and suggested the woman have a series of tests performed using infrared light to determine its worth.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • In the end, the auctioneer's sales pitch on the chapel organ paid off.
    — Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021
  • But who is the auctioneer putting up all of these signs?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Weights and prices flashed on screens above the auctioneer’s head.
    — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The date for the auction has not been set, lead auctioneer Jeff Siska said.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 14 July 2023
  • The theme of five runs throughout the stone, according to the auctioneer.
    — CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
  • And then if there’s excess demand, the auctioneer raises the price and puts up the call again.
    — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
  • And selling dreams is the work of marketers and auctioneers.
    — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In demonstrating the piece, Beeple even played with the auctioneer.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
  • As usual, the auction would end when bidding topped and the the auctioneer banged the gavel.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 13 June 2020
  • The auctioneer starts up again, now with higher prices.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • If there are more than five players, the banker may choose to act only as the banker and auctioneer, opting to not play.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
  • From many corners of the 200-acre grounds, loudspeakers broadcast the voice of the auctioneer up on the podium.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • But that was in an auction room, with an auctioneer, and live bidders.
    — James Tarmy, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Brady came out of retirement and wanted Lelands, the auctioneer, to void the sale.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Ken Goldin, the auctioneer in charge of selling the ball on behalf of Cory Youmans, the lucky spectator, thinks the ball will sell for more than $3 million.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • These, and so much more, to be transported elsewhere with the bang of an auctioneer’s gavel.
    — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • If people stayed long enough into the evening, the auctioneer might slash that oak bedside table down to $30.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Visit the auctioneer’s website at 12pm this Thursday to place your bids.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 June 2022
  • In that constrained space, Powers imagined the wails of families ripped apart, the smells, the bellow of an auctioneer.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 16 June 2023
  • Over the past week in San Francisco, auctioneers twice clashed with sheriff’s deputies.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 25 Apr. 2020
  • The auctioneer, Fabio Bugnoli, 46, wore a thick blue rubber glove and picked up chains of clinging crabs to demonstrate their size and vim.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
  • But when the auctioneer arrived for the 1980 sale, Jean was gone and Clarence was selling the china cabinet with all its collectibles.
    — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Over the years, unhappy buyers have filed lawsuits against cruise lines or the onboard art auctioneers, claiming the value of the artworks had been inflated.
    — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Jan. 2024
  • These pictures have one thing in common: They were purchased, market observers say, by clients who promised to pay a minimum price before the auctioneer had even picked up the gavel.
    — Zachary Small, New York Times, 19 May 2024

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