SOLD in a Sentence
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202 example sentences for SOLD, such as:
1. Looks as if we were all sold out.
2. Bananas are usually sold by weight.
3. Love can neither be bought nor sold.
4. He sold the cafe as a going concern.
5. Joe's completely sold on the concept.
2. Bananas are usually sold by weight.
3. Love can neither be bought nor sold.
4. He sold the cafe as a going concern.
5. Joe's completely sold on the concept.
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Meanings and Examples of SOLD
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sold
a. disposed of to a purchaser
Classic Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
1 Looks as if we were all sold out.
2 Tom Slattery could have sold his farm for three times its value to any of the planters in the County.
3 Melly sold useless stuff to men who could have no possible use for it as quietly and serenely as a shopkeeper, and Scarlett patterned her conduct on Melly's.
4 The gold will be melted and the stones sold and the money used to buy drugs and other medical supplies.
5 Atlanta people tried to think that the men who sold such stuff to the government must be contract holders from Alabama or Virginia or Tennessee, and not Georgians.
6 He had sold his boats when blockading grew too hazardous, and he was now openly engaged in food speculation.
7 You see, when I enlisted I sold most of my land and I put all my money in Confederate bonds and you know what they're worth now.
8 Wilkerson and Hilton had the power to interfere in any trade Scarlett might make and to fix their own prices on anything she sold or swapped.
9 Now that Rene was home, he drove an old wagon to the Yankee camp every day and sold cakes and pies and beaten biscuits to the soldiers.
10 Everybody needed beds and china and mattresses and I sold them cheap, because I figured it was about as much other folks' stuff as it was mine.
11 I'll tell him--why, yes, I'll tell him I sold you my diamond earbobs.
12 She had sold him lumber to build his house.
13 The wives of Rhett's Scallawag and Carpetbagger friends called in droves and so did the "new people" she had met when she sold lumber for their homes.
14 Rhett suggested "Caveat Emptorium," assuring her that it would be a title most in keeping with the type of goods sold in the store.
15 She could have sold them for large sums any time in the last few years, but she had refused all offers.
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 Those African leaders have now fallen victims of neocolonialism and sold their fellow Africans down the river.
2 They sold the house for treble the amount they paid for it.
3 A number of forged works of art have been sold as genuine.
4 Fake designer watches are sold at a fraction of the price of the genuine article.
5 Love can neither be bought or sold; its only price is love.
6 Love can neither be bought nor sold.
7 Bananas are usually sold by weight.
8 The shares were sold for well below their nominal value.
9 The market sold a bewildering variety of cheeses.
10 The video has sold three million copies in its first three weeks on release.
11 They sold the business at a profit / loss.
12 Her father was a commercial traveller who sold kitchenware.
13 Joe's completely sold on the concept.
14 He sold the cafe as a going concern.
15 You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition ; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.