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Example sentences for "public sale"

  • An auctioneer is a special kind of agent employed to dispose of goods to the highest bidder at a public sale.

  • A, or he may sell the ring at public sale, advising A of the time and place of sale.

  • He will state his price; and if the owner is dissatisfied with it, he will give him a chance of offering it at public sale.

  • It does not come to a public sale at all.

  • Is the price ascertained by a public sale?

  • And when it is offered at public sale, what is done then?

  • Before that land can be bought at public sale or by mere purchasers at private sale, it will, I feel sure, be entirely occupied by actual settlers.

  • Then what land is not sold at public sale is open to private entry at $1.

  • Much of the best land on either side of the road is in the hands of speculators, who purchased it at public sale, or afterwards plastered it over with land warrants.

  • The rank of Consul, of Patrician, of Senator, was exposed to public sale; and it would have been considered as disaffection, if any one had refused to purchase these empty and disgraceful honors with the greatest part of his fortune.

  • The shipping at this station consisted only of the Smeaton as Bell Rock Tender, the other vessels which had been employed in carrying on the work, having been disposed of by public sale.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public sale" 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:
    already present; high water; nowhere else; public confession; public confidence; public credit; public exhibition; public funds; public liberty; public morals; public nuisance; public office; public park; public property; public resort; public road; public schools; public sector; public servants; public services; public subscription; public utilities; public view; publicly perform; severe blow; take post