How to Use barter in a Sentence

barter

1 of 2 verb
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  • The White House said Democrats would not barter over the debt ceiling.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Rather than pay for the work, the man offered to barter some beehives.
    — USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Kids come in and barter with each other — or buy more L.O.L. dolls from the store, of course.
    — Chavie Lieber, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Passersby will be invited to barter with the artist as part of the work.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • New Orleans will beg and barter their last dollar to keep the Saints.
    — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Years stretched to a decade of Britney having to barter for dinner.
    — Kerry Howley, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Women have been made to barter their stories for their rights.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2022
  • Prize is not redeemable for cash and may not be sold, bartered or auctioned.
    — courant.com, 20 Aug. 2017
  • According to the sisters, the party might come across sheep herders and barter some of their fish for lamb.
    — Britta Lokting, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • Cash money became a thing of the past, as people began to barter and share.
    — Ruth Ozeki, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Friends told the British press that Rowley would often search dumpsters for items to barter or sell.
    — William Booth, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2018
  • Using peer-to-peer services to share and barter things, from books and CDs to power tools and cars, never took off.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Democrats also complained that Biden gave in to McCarthy and bartered over the nation’s debt ceiling.
    — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
  • In the show, Hashemian is described as a top CIA spy who is eventually caught and bartered for cash.
    — Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • Women’s bodies are not commodities to be bartered for the settling of scores.
    — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 27 July 2017
  • Prize is not transferable or redeemable for cash and may not be sold, bartered or auctioned.
    — Union-Tribune Rewards, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2018
  • Prepare to barter with vendors while shopping for clothes, giftables and food.
    — Kai Oliver-Kurtin, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The idea of exchanging presents is not to barter goods, much less to pay people for milestones and holidays.
    — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
  • They were bought, bartered, borrowed, or — always a surprise — swiped from the medicine chest during a party.
    — Don Sapatkin, Philly.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Lundström is one of a growing number of people who are pushed to barter their labor in return for a place to stay.
    — Helen Chandler-Wilde, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Vendors carry, barter, and sell firearms: no ID needed.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • The customer, Plank said, opened a plastic shopping bag and tried to barter with deodorant and other items.
    — Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2018
  • And then when Season 4 found him in prison, sometimes giving away his food to barter, Harbour was happy to pivot.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 25 July 2022
  • Young Frederick pilfered bread from his slave master to barter for lessons from poor white children.
    — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • That’s what social media is: a sad, sprawling bazaar in which attention is exchanged and bartered.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 28 July 2019
  • That is up from zero in the 1990s, when famine pushed North Koreans to start bartering and trading in black markets to survive.
    — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2019
  • Prizes are nontransferable, and Event tickets may not be sold, bartered, or exchanged.
    — Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
  • My travel companion gave the last of his pesos to two kids bartering quick magic tricks for cash.
    — Alexandria Misch, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The gang takes a trip to the secret night market, a place where supernatural creatures gather to barter and haggle.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
  • In the fall of 1944, an opportunity presented itself at the local store, where young Bertie arrived with two chickens stuffed in his pants-legs to barter for groceries.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
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barter

2 of 2 noun
  • The explorers used blankets and other supplies for barter to get food from the native people.
  • In 1996, amid crippling famine, Ji tried to steal a few pieces of coal from a rail yard to barter for food.
    — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • As for the decibel clamor — that was the barter deal for a bigger, better L.A.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The North has proved adept at evading sanctions and Pyongyang may have already moved more of its transactions to cash or barter.
    — Peter Baker and Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • That’s one reason the IRS has gone after the barter community to tax goods and services that are exchanged.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • This particular search insired Gellar and Laibow to hop on the phone and barter.
    — Colleen Leahey McKeegan, Marie Claire, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Cancer is a pretty thrifty sign, so use your classic wit to barter for the foreseeable future.
    — Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 29 May 2019
  • While the art of the barter is a must, shopkeepers are gentle and inviting—a unique trait of Omani hospitality.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • As a scientist Fauci deals in facts, when so many barter in free-floating feelings.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • And don’t counter with the tuition-room-and-board argument, which is barter, not compensation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2020
  • In colonial America, making corn whiskey was a way to earn money or barter for goods and services.
    — Alan Ashe, CNN, 7 June 2018
  • Until the shelves are restocked, people will have find other, non-yeast baking projects, grow their own starter, barter for yeast, or just hold out for more.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2020
  • And that means everything from tuna to stamps to cigarettes has its own unique value in a trade and barter market.
    — Alexandra Cardinale, Vox, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Neighbors resorted to a barter system to exchange, say, a cabbage for a bottle of soy sauce.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • As widespread gifting takes hold, what develops is a kind of barter system.
    — Sebastian Modak, CNT, 20 July 2017
  • There were many meetings on the design of a barter system that might allow Iran to swap oil for other goods, evading US sanctions.
    — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
  • With the fall of that earlier empire, coinage disappeared and barter returned.
    — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Choco Pies became so prevalent for sale or barter on the streets that North Korea reportedly banned their import to Kaesong in 2014.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 17 June 2018
  • Magazine Marcelis acquired the pieces one by one as opportunities to barter for her own work came along.
    — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
  • McCarthy has proven a man unworthy of trust, his spine bendable, his values pliable, his beliefs open to barter.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Fox said he was constrained in his ability to raise pay because Covid quashed many of the barter deals his business brokered, knocking out around 75% of his business.
    — Martha C. White For Cnn Business, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • As Sri Lanka drew closer to its default this year, its central bank was forced to arrange a barter agreement to pay for Iranian oil with tea leaves.
    — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
  • There were many meetings on the design of a barter system that might allow Iran to swap oil for other goods, evading American sanctions.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 7 July 2019
  • The organization accepted cash, food stamps, meal coupons and barter cards.
    — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2020
  • About three weeks later, an undercover agent went to Levi’s car lot and asked if there were other ways to rent a vehicle, such as trade or barter, according to the charges.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • An investigation found that Turkey was exporting large amounts of gold to Tehran in return for oil and gas, in what became know and the gold-for-oil barter system.
    — Angela Dewan and Gul Tuysuz, CNN, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Interestingly, cash was not the only way to pay -- barter was also employed.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • In Fiji and Samoa, the government distributed seeds so that people could grow their own food, to eat or trade via informal barter systems.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Germany, Britain and France, three of the remaining parties to the deal, are working on a barter system that would allow European businesses to trade with Iran.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 2 July 2019
  • The evolution from barter to money is an old story in economics, repeated down the centuries in one form or another, to the point that even children are aware of it.
    — John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 6 Aug. 2021

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