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Example sentences for "could sell"

  • My house told Fred that before they could sell to him they would have to get my sanction.

  • I rather thought that if I could get him started on unlined goods I could sell him on lined stuff and mittens.

  • Nova Scotia people often come there after corn, and he could sell them to them, to sell again to the fishermen down their way.

  • John could pound the basket-stuff at home, and bring it over here; you could make them, and he could sell them to the fishermen in the summer.

  • But when he found the press-gang were about, he thought if he could sell him to them, and get him out of the way, mother would marry him.

  • Remember I once told you that I could sell them--that I could sell anything.

  • I had make up my mind to start with a good, tough customer, because I wanted to give the new plan a thorough test, and I felt that if I could sell to a tough one I could sell to anybody.

  • Also, I don't think I could sell it all from my store.

  • I had bought this washing machine on the understanding that I could sell it at the rate of ten dollars down and five dollars a month, and pay them at the same rate for it.

  • All we would got to do is to put up the four thousand apiece, Abe, and when the house is finished Rashkin says we could sell it like a flash.

  • If I could sell all my Landsleute what is in the cloak and suit business, Mawruss, we would be doing a million-dollar business a month, ain't it?

  • Maybe if I knew enough about it I could sell it.

  • I asked if he had anything in the way of a light second-handed buggy, which he could sell at a low price.

  • I told her I thought it would be about what I needed, but if she had the slightest idea she could sell it, or would ever need it to make me a visit in the far west when I got rich, that I might possibly get along without it.

  • I told him he could sell more at fifty cents each, than he could at twenty-five.

  • I was immensely pleased with it, and felt certain I could sell a rat trap to every farmer in the country, if I had the right to do so.

  • And right away came the thought of the boy I could sell it to.

  • I looked over everything I had to see if there was a thing I could sell.

  • By luck I had some pictures I could sell, And so we fought the wolf back from the door; She painted too, aye, wonderfully well.

  • The room was cold and bare; Gone blankets and the cloak I used to wear; Bare floor and wall and cupboard, every shelf-- Nothing that I could sell .

  • I sought for something I could sell, in vain .

  • I guess we could sell it, all right," said Harris.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could sell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could answer; could bring; could carry; could catch; could collect; could discover; could distinguish; could gather; could learn; could make; could mean; could not bring myself; could not help being; could not help feeling; could not help smiling; could only; could reply; could sing; could sleep; could spare; could succeed; could take; could talk; could venture; could write; sanctum sanctorum