How to Use trade show in a Sentence

trade show

noun
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  • The company unveiled a new product at the annual trade show this week.
  • The state’s largest trade show is back for a 38th year.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The news came at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The candy show was the city’s first large trade show in the pandemic.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Held twice a year in the spring and fall, the High Point Market is the world's largest home furnishings trade show.
    — Regina Cole, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Then, in late May, Ms. Nie was at a weeklong trade show in Shanghai.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Hollis said Luker got the idea at a trade show and modified it to fit the store’s needs.
    — Kelly Kazek | Kkazek@al.com, al, 15 Dec. 2021
  • In 1981, Sui sold her first pieces to Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s at a trade show.
    — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The plans for the Wendell Scott project began to take shape shortly after at, of all places, a trade show.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The two shared a stage as speakers at a trade show in Dallas in February.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Watch Week, the watch trade show and forum the family has hosted since 2015.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The annual trade show took place last week in Las Vegas.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The Galaxy Ring — notably also not a phone — was one of the big stories to come out of this phone-centric trade show.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The Brink’s global services website lists the trade show locations on a link to trade shows.
    — Richard Wintonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • Men’s Fashion Week and the biannual menswear trade show, Pitti Uomo, is off to the races.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
  • And 99% uptime over the duration of a four day trade show is still impressive.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The couple took their invention on the road, traveling to a trade show in the Chicago suburbs.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Nitro coffee is a great example of something that went the trade show route first.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The metaverse is expected to be a hot topic this week at the annual tech trade show CES.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
  • On’s early prototypes won the award for best new product at the 2010 ISPO, the world’s largest sportswear trade show.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The trade show has announced a return to its usual March slot and will operate as an in-person event for the first time in three years.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The event culminates with a trade show on Saturday, Sept. 24, in the hotel grand ballroom.
    — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Aug. 2022
  • He also got married, welcomed a son and attended his first trade show in New York.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • At a videogame trade show later that year, Microsoft showed how the HoloLens could immerse gamers in a mixed virtual world.
    — Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Many of these folks aren’t your typical trade show regulars.
    — Outside Online, 11 July 2022
  • The trade show is put on by the cheesemakers association and the Center for Dairy Research.
    — Nicole Haase, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The trade show floor was jammed packed with out-of-this-world level hot tools, unique spins on everyday products, and deets on products that would be launching soon.
    — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 22 July 2022
  • The trade show Watches and Wonders Geneva, one of the watch industry’s largest annual events, took place this past week for the first time in-person since 2019.
    — Michael Clerizo, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Classic men’s wear like summer suiting, linen button-down shirts and Italian leather footwear are tradition at Pitti Uomo, the bi-annual men’s trade show in Florence.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 21 June 2024
  • Their friendship solidified when Mellberg came to town for a Performance Racing Industry trade show two years ago.
    — Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024

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