Sentences with sell
sell
S s - I sold everything I owned except for my car and my books. [VERB noun]
- It sells everything from hair ribbons to oriental rugs. [VERB noun]
- Sell implies a transferring of the ownership of something to another for money [to sell books, a house, etc.]; barter implies an exchange of goods or services without using money [to barter food for clothes]; trade, in transitive use, also implies the exchange of articles [let's trade neckties], and, intransitively, implies the carrying on of a business in which one buys and sells a specified commodity [to trade in wheat]; auction implies the public sale of items one by one, each going to the highest of the competing bidders [to auction off unclaimed property]; vend applies especially to the selling of small articles, as by peddling, slot machine, etc. [vending machines]
- Unmodernised property can sell for up to 40 per cent of its modernised market value. [V + for/at]
- Even if this album doesn't sell and the critics don't like it, we wouldn't ever change. [VERB]
- It is only the sensational that sells news magazines. [VERB noun]
- She tried to sell me the idea of buying my own paper shredder. [VERB noun noun]
- He sells used cars for a living
- To sell one's honour
- Publicity sells many products
- To sell an idea
- These dresses sell well in the spring
- To sell a buyer on a purchase
- The service in the hotel was a sell
- A store that sells hardware, to sell real estate
- To sell chain stores
- Television sells many products
- To sell oneself to the public
- sell him on the idea
- To sell well, poorly, etc.
- Belts selling for six dollars
- A scheme that won't sell
- He sold the car to me for $1000.
- He sells insurance. This store sells my favorite brand.
- He'll sell me the car for $1000.
- The salesman sold me on a more expensive model than I wanted.
- The clerk really sold the shoes to me by flattery.
- The hot record sold a million copies this month.
- To sell an idea to the public.
- To sell the voters on a candidate.
- To sell one's soul for political power.
- The defenders of the fort sold their lives dearly.
- I like this house—will they sell?
- One sister is a cashier and the other sells.
- Eggs used to sell at sixty cents a dozen. This shirt sells for thirty dollars.
- On a rainy day, umbrellas really sell.
- Here's an idea that'll sell.