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Example sentences for "peddled"

Lexicographically close words:
pedantries; pedantry; pedants; pedder; peddle; peddler; peddlers; peddling; pede; pedem
  1. Pearl street, for whom he peddled cakes, as was the custom.

  2. And he added vaguely, "Quite a lot of it peddled out here in this camp, I guess.

  3. If they only peddled decent whisky it wouldn't be so bad, Ryan.

  4. Most of the stuff that's peddled nowadays is doctored," Nolan replied, with the air of one who knows.

  5. I coulda peddled that damn' hootch on a hangin' tray like circus lemonade.

  6. Among the countless lies peddled by McClellan's worshippers, the most enormous and the most impudent is that one by which they attempt to explain, what in their lingo they call, the hostility of the abolitionists towards McClellan.

  7. The above splendid conception was, and still is, peddled among the army and among the nation by the admirers of, and the devotees of, anaconda strategy.

  8. Not content with making turron alone, they had peddled it all over the Balearic Isles.

  9. Having risen with the dawn, our preparations were complete by the time at which the donkeyman who peddled drinking-water about the streets of Murcia called for us with his long cart.

  10. New orders are peddled from mouth to mouth.

  11. He had worked with his hands for Terry and Seth Thomas at the old wooden wheels and veneered cases, which were peddled about the country and sold for thirty or forty dollars each to be the treasured timekeepers of many households.

  12. Jung likewise discovered the "menace of the Jew" and peddled it for all it was worth.

  13. Illustration: Showing the type of literature peddled by patrioteer Harry A.

  14. In going along the street he saw some apples for sale, and, buying as many of them as he could afford, he peddled them to the passers-by.

  15. With the same devotion to his parents as when he peddled the apples in the street, Eads now bought them a farm in Iowa, and provided in every way he could for their comfort.

  16. I always loved the way they peddled information as though it were Wonder Bread.

  17. He swallowed the idea like a carp snapping a hovering dragonfly, then went off and peddled it to the Vice Minister as though it were his own.

  18. The young man who peddled the New Bedford "Standard" wanted to dispose of his route.

  19. John peddled the product and became expert on "pure white" and "straw color.

  20. Sewing for the market folk, decorating palmetto fans and Easter eggs, which mammy peddled in the big houses, she had earned small sums of money from time to time.

  21. Indian squaws peddled them throughout the country for ninepence apiece.

  22. From this he made between one and two hundred brooms which he peddled in a horse-cart in neighboring towns.

  23. Then, in sudden panic, she turned squarely about, leaped on her bicycle, and peddled back over the way she had come.

  24. She peddled for a mile or more along the shore road and entered a small fishing village.

  25. I jumped on my bicycle and peddled away as fast as ever I could.

  26. One day, with Tom McCarthy as her escort, Norma peddled back to Carl Langer’s studio.

  27. At her leisure times in winter she made and peddled baskets in true Indian fashion, and told improbable and baseless fortunes, and she begged cider at the tavern, and drank cider everywhere.

  28. He and his wife thriftily ran their little farm and industriously wove charming baskets and peddled them around the neighboring towns.

  29. The father purchased a small farm near the city of New York, and there peddled milk, in which avocation he was assisted by his son, who never was ashamed of the employment of his youth.

  30. For think, Weener, if you had been born a woman, with what gusto would you have peddled your flaccid flesh upon the city streets and offered your miserable dogsbody to the reluctant use of undiscriminating customers.

  31. For years town lots were peddled about the town and traded for stocks of goods, for old horses, and other personal property, and it was always thought that the person who obtained the real estate got the poor end of the bargain.

  32. This book he peddled about Ohio in person.

  33. My available assets were a lot of marred and broken furniture which I peddled out in pieces, receiving in cash about one hundred dollars which I applied on my debts.

  34. The latter we sold to a boarding house near by, and the former we peddled out from house to house.

  35. America has produced one man who has been called a reincarnation of Socrates; that man was Bronson Alcott, who peddled clocks and forgot the flight of time whenever any one would listen to him expound the unities.

  36. He peddled out a few to his friends, but his business instinct was shown in that he himself tells how one year he made a thousand dollars' worth of pencils, but was obliged to sacrifice them all to cancel a debt of one hundred dollars.

  37. I do not understand what you are referring to," the now thoroughly mystified Joe interrupted the beggar, "I have never peddled a needle case in all my life.

  38. The statement was redundant with the propaganda that Erikson's nightriders peddled on every street corner.

  39. Could it be that the man actually believed that the poison he peddled was the food of the gods?

  40. Twice a week she peddled fruit and garden stuff in San Lorenzo.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peddled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.