How to Use sell in a Sentence
- Only a few stores sell that type of equipment.
- Stock prices are increasing, so now is a good time to sell.
- He buys and remodels houses and then sells them at a profit.
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Hence, the lender was able to evict you and sell the home.
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Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2023
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Giberson sold the business in the 1980s to Jim and Sharon Brooks.
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Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
1 June 2023
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Just don’t try to sell him on a David vs. Goliath matchup.
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Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com,
al,
16 Sep. 2023
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These products are sold under the brand name Afrin and others.
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Lucas Berenbrok,
Fortune Well,
26 Oct. 2023
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No New York City apartment has ever sold for that much.
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Tori Otten,
The New Republic,
3 Oct. 2023
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Many grocery stores sell heat-and-serve frozen plantains too.
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Patricia S York,
Southern Living,
25 June 2023
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The lawsuits gave those descendants the choice to either sell their stake in the land or bid for it at auction.
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Guthrie Scrimgeour,
WIRED,
14 Dec. 2023
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The median price of a home in Fort Worth sold for 3.9% less in November than the year prior.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Feb. 2024
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This one opens the door to booking and selling tickets if there is enough response.
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Susan Johnston,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2023
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They’re then plucked from the shallow waters and sold, ripe for dredging in flour and crisping up in the deep fryer.
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Ben Mims,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2023
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The piñatas stamps are being sold in booklets of 20 by USPS and can be purchased online or at any postal store across the country.
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Flor Tolentino,
ABC News,
21 Sep. 2023
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The container can be lined with disposable trays that the brand sells for the easiest cleanup.
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goodhousekeeping.com,
1 June 2023
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Ryan sold his two-story house in Trumbull County and moved to a new home in Dublin, a Columbus suburb.
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cleveland,
19 July 2023
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Fans were selling shirts in his honor and there was poster board where people could write messages about him.
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Nikstreng,
oregonlive,
16 Sep. 2023
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Kim Kardashian is hardly the first person to wear or sell a bra with faux nipples.
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Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
27 Oct. 2023
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He was again arrested in 2007 for selling drugs out of his apartment.
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CBS News,
31 July 2023
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There is no common rule across the United States as to whether alcohol can be sold in grocery stores.
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Isabelle Butera,
USA TODAY,
25 June 2023
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The cars are being sold as different lots, but that’s not stopping you from bidding on both.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
7 Nov. 2023
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Some farmers are giving up and trying to sell their equipment.
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Audrey McAvoy,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2024
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His parents found work in factories and small shops, and Martín sold pastries on the street to help bring in extra money.
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Brian Murphy,
Washington Post,
5 Apr. 2024
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It can even be paired with a second mic (sold separately) and can be used in the car via the FM tuner or auxiliary cord.
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Dorian Smith-Garcia,
Parents,
13 June 2023
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Since its debut in 2010, the Instant Pot has sold millions of machines and spent years as a must-have kitchen sensation.
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Amanda Mull,
The Atlantic,
14 June 2023
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The firm eventually was sold to JPMorgan Chase at $2 a share.
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Luisa Beltran,
Fortune,
12 Jan. 2024
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The mall was sold for $85 million earlier this week and is planned to be redeveloped.
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Katie Wiseman,
The Indianapolis Star,
29 Apr. 2024
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Hall said he was blindsided by Oates’ plan to sell his part of Whole Oates Enterprises.
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Jonathan Mattise,
Fortune,
30 Nov. 2023
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Pissarro, by then a family man with three kids, used the money from selling his art to pay the grocer.
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Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2023
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But those sanctions have seen Moscow be forced to sell its oil at a discount to countries like China and India.
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Jon Gambrell,
Anchorage Daily News,
5 Sep. 2023
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There’s one team, though, that could be a tougher sell than the others.
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Theo MacKie,
The Arizona Republic,
10 Apr. 2023
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Does that seem to be a tougher sell in this prestige-TV era?
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Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
1 July 2023
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That last one, which topped the Hot 100, was a tough sell at rock radio.
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Ed Masley,
The Arizona Republic,
23 Aug. 2022
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The sell from Wilcox and the fake from Burrow, cause the linebackers and safeties to step forward.
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Lance Reisland,
cleveland,
14 Jan. 2023
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Was the Avengers reference a tough sell to the studio as well?
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Aug. 2023
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But that walk is a tough sell so far for the president.
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CBS News,
10 Dec. 2023
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To me, that’s always been a core attribute of what helps a film sell.
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Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2023
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Even for a term made for marketing, that proved to be a tough sell.
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Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Aug. 2023
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His booth at the fair sells cheesecake in five flavors, none of them fried.
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Sarah Blaskovich,
Dallas News,
9 Aug. 2023
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But there's an even stronger sell: This recipe is equal parts yummy and easy.
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Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Aug. 2023
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That’s a tougher sell, but Oats is attracting some of the best players in the country.
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Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com,
al,
4 Jan. 2023
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The sell here was the location and the packaging, not the living space itself.
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Curbed,
2 Oct. 2023
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And there’s the rub: Where there’s an audience, there’s a market, and the unusual sells.
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Paul Croughton,
Robb Report,
6 Aug. 2023
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And both excel at the art of the sell—themselves and their companies—and the ability to spin the world around their vision of it.
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Tim Higgins,
WSJ,
13 Jan. 2024
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Unlike brands that make pure work boots, a good chunk of the boots that Red Wing sells are purchased for their form over their function.
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Tony Carrick,
Field & Stream,
25 Oct. 2023
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Google supports Windows 11 with passkeys—not Windows 10—which is going to make this a tough sell.
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Ron Amadeo,
Ars Technica,
9 Dec. 2022
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Yet Hometree’s wider vision could prove a tough sell in a land where native woodlands have been gone for so long.
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WIRED,
22 July 2023
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Meanwhile, Tencent, Meituan, and Li Ning were small net sells.
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Brendan Ahern,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2023
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Cool sells—weird, outlandish, and outrageous not so much.
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Carlton Reid,
WIRED,
1 Dec. 2023
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The groups’s schedule is intense, a tough sell for police officers who work long hours.
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Maria Cramer,
New York Times,
4 Jan. 2024
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For much of the past 15 years, steel was a tough sell to investors who had grown jaded over persistent global gluts and cheap imports.
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Thomas Biesheuvel,
Fortune,
15 Aug. 2023
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Confused customers believed the e-tron was Q5 sized, making its $72K starting price a tough sell.
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Tony Quiroga,
Car and Driver,
18 Dec. 2022
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But after a tough sell — and thundering cheers from the crowd — Clayton went with his gut feeling and joined Horan’s team.
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Starr Bowenbank,
Billboard,
7 Mar. 2023
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So far, ideas for protecting Miami have been a tough sell.
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Jennie Rothenberg Gritz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Dec. 2022
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Pasolini’s emotional watch is a tough sell but do make the effort.
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Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
1 May 2024
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The stock now has 18 buy recommendations versus five holds and no sells.
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Kurt Schussler,
Bloomberg.com,
2 June 2023
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A lot of the objects that Julien’s sells are mass-produced, with little intrinsic value.
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Rachel Monroe,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2024
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But even those projects — let alone ones that put an infinity hydrotherapy pool on the roof — could be a tough sell.
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Teo Armus,
Washington Post,
28 Aug. 2023
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An Ed Kowalczyk-free Live, however, was a difficult sell to most fans.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2023
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But for less frequent customers of Amazon Fresh, paying nearly $120 a year extra is a tougher sell.
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Amrita Khalid,
The Verge,
8 Dec. 2023
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