How to Use vend in a Sentence

vend

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  • There are a couple of machines onsite that will vend cash cards.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Most of them started vending as teenagers, and many still work at souvenir booths.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2018
  • So, is the desire to possess or vend luxury items out of step?
    — Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
  • This was his first time vending at an event of this magnitude.
    — Rachael Thomas, Essence, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Food booths are the only type of booths permitted to vend at the festival.
    — courant.com, 25 July 2019
  • But this time on a food truck, the mobile vending platform that’s been popular in Huntsville for the last 10 years.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2023
  • It was also supposed to make the legal process of vending, easier but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
    — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • That’s a smart move in giving confidence to those who might not trust a machine to vend the right product, or just not work.
    — Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The city is proposing doing away with a requirement that food trucks rent a parking spot to vend in the downtown.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Otherwise known as the home of the famous pecan pie vending machine.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Before, the main entrance was on the street level and there were only vending machines.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 7 June 2017
  • States across the country have already passed street vending laws to provide vendors with rights.
    — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • New city rules designed to ease congestion on the bridge effective Wednesday will ban vending from this and all the city’s 789 bridges.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Festival includes craft and vending booths, food booths and Irish dance and music.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Local artists vend in driveways, front yards and parking areas.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Concessions are cashless at Lucas Oil, but there are two machines that will vend cash cards.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Now the only drinks available are $4.50 bottles of soda from vending machines out front.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • Around lunch hour on most weekdays, Washington consumes the food sold from vending trucks on downtown streets.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
  • The Prince George’s County council voted to do the same at vending machines in libraries and county buildings.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 18 July 2017
  • With no houses to clean, no motorcycle taxis to drive and no markets to vend their wares, many face eviction and starvation.
    — Aryn Baker, Time, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Why is there a black market for mobile food vending licenses?
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Tweaking the human body seems like a big departure from vending machines.
    — Alexa D'angelo, latimes.com, 25 July 2017
  • If the temperature inside were to stay above 41 degrees for over 20 minutes, the machine would shut off and would not vend, Tambuzzo told the TV station.
    — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Mercado launched as a catering business three years ago and began vending at farmers markets and public events in the spring of 2015, with a trailer hitched to a pickup.
    — Leeanne Griffin, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • Espinoza said that Price’s office was willing to support street vending when other council offices didn’t want to touch the issue.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Food trucks outside the grandstand vended different styles of cuisine.
    — Alan Behr, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • City officials say there’s been a significant increase in sidewalk vending over the last few years, and there are health and safety concerns.
    — Michael Slaten, Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2024
  • And Generation co-owner Jeremy Gomez said many food trucks had issues getting the permits needed to vend until this week.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The sidewalk vending issue is finally being dealt with.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The cost, however, officials said, is outweighed by the need to modernize Metro, which has for decades relied on refrigerator-size kiosks developed in the 1980s to vend and reload fare cards.
    — Justin George, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020

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