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Example sentences for "sales"

Lexicographically close words:
sale; saleable; salen; salep; saleratus; salesgirl; salesgirls; saleslady; salesman; salesmanship
  1. I think that if you work things right and hold down expenses and make the sales and purchases and other sales you have in mind, you'll get away with your deal.

  2. Now, Ben, I have a real, artistic sales challenge that is crying for your talent.

  3. Indoor-Outdoor Climatizers--sniffles, he said, kept killing his sales presentation even though his record was good enough.

  4. For that he had felt a spark of the old enthusiasm and it had carried him into working out a bright new sales approach for the deal tonight.

  5. I'll put the top sales artist of every regional office on it.

  6. By ten o'clock they had dropped a dozen or more random hints, but never a sales pitch.

  7. He had a fine, husky two-year-old boy, smart, a real future National Sales Manager.

  8. Now salesmen all over the hemisphere are going to follow your sales plan.

  9. The Old Man was a wonderful sales manager and boss.

  10. Exercising his sales ability with fair success, he fed himself this pitch all along the two hundred mile, twenty-minute hop home from the city.

  11. He had now quit three jobs, good enough sales jobs where he was doing well, in a year.

  12. Instead of waiting for a sales slack, I'm going to move you and that sweet little wife of yours right into a spanking new, special Country Gentleman unit I had in mind for myself.

  13. By sales genius and the old seat of the pants.

  14. I will confess that I have such inordinate expectations of the sale of my books, which I hope I think modestly of, that the sales reported to me never seem great enough.

  15. The publisher of books can ascertain the fact through the declining sales of a writer; but the editor of a magazine, who is the best customer of the best writers, must feel the market with a much more delicate touch.

  16. The percentage offered by the subscription houses was only about half as much as that paid by the trade, but the sales were so much greater that the author could very well afford to take it.

  17. I dare say they might get a peep at that sales book if they wanted to.

  18. Oh, I dare say by consulting our sales book we could very easily tell you.

  19. Auctioneers, in large cities, hold their sales at regular periods; sometimes, every day or evening.

  20. The laws and usages regarding sales at auction, in most of the United States, are similar, in their general principles, to those of Pennsylvania or New-York.

  21. Mr. Sabin, or those I shall describe when giving some account of the sales of the last decade.

  22. I am personally grateful to this voracious accumulator of autographic treasure, as I picked up at one of the sales seven volumes of eighteenth-century water-colour sketches of Dorset buildings and scenery for--five shillings!

  23. The sales of the following year opened with the dispersal of Mr. Barker's Royal autographs on January 22nd.

  24. In the autumn of 1906 Mr. Frederick Barker, who was held in high esteem as an autograph expert, died, and three sales were devoted to the dispersal of his MSS.

  25. A rise in price at both these sales was very marked.

  26. Very few of the totals realised at these sales approached the price paid for this single stamp.

  27. The era of autograph sales began in 1810, at Charleston, South Carolina, by the dispersal of the collection of MSS.

  28. Sales from the Bibliotheca Phillippica have taken place at intervals since 1892, and the store is not yet exhausted.

  29. It would seem to me that such a step, with a restriction of the sales to limited quantities and for actual improvement, would be free from all just exception.

  30. There is no reason to suppose that future sales will be more productive.

  31. The whole revenue then accruing from the customs and from the sales of public lands, if not more, will undoubtedly be wanted to defray the necessary expenses of the Government under the most prudent administration of its affairs.

  32. Footnote 82: Relating to sales and donations of public lots in Washington, D.

  33. Information on the total volume of direct sales by agricultural producers is not available.

  34. The largest single item of revenue--more than 30 percent of the total--has been collected in the form of a turnover tax on sales that has been passed on to the ultimate consumer.

  35. Nearly a thousand cars were sold that year, but with the beginning of winter sales decreased, almost stopped.

  36. Lack of organization keeps prices up, for its cost must be charged in on the selling price; and high prices keep sales down.

  37. Still the sales increased by leaps and bounds, and his margin of profit on each car mounted into a greater total.

  38. His own living expenses were cut to the bone--every cent of profit on sales went into the factory.

  39. Most of them were managers of departments now; one was handling the sales force, another had developed into a driver and won many trophies and broken many records with the Ford car; Wills was superintendent of the factory.

  40. The success of next year's sales was certain.

  41. If he could make a spectacular demonstration of four-cylinder construction as compared with the old motors, the success of his spring sales would be assured.

  42. The manager, told Mr. Brad that the increased sales of the two days permitted the establishment to give him a vacation of two weeks on full pay, and during these weeks the manager himself set up a neat and modest brougham.

  43. This recent phenomenon of sales of stories by the hundred thousand is not, however, wholly due to quality.

  44. Act of Congress, whose operatives are exempted from military duty, if the law be interpreted to include sales to individuals as well as to the government, and suggesting certain modifications.

  45. There are many red flags displayed this morning in Clay Street, for sales of furniture and renting of houses to the highest bidders.

  46. We heard yesterday of sales of flour at $110 per barrel.

  47. Sugars: the market is active; we hear of sales of prime brown at $2 to $2.

  48. There seemed to be a far different type of buyer at this sale, than the girls had found at any of the little sales in Westchester; and once the auctioneer began on the antique pieces, the prices ran up alarmingly.

  49. But I thought you wanted to furnish by going to the sales of antiques," ventured Polly.

  50. They attend sales of antiques and incidentally fall in love.

  51. After Tom reached New York, there seemed very little time for Polly in which to hunt up antiques in the country, or to attend sales that were advertised at various places.

  52. The hoards are opened, credit is freely given, the quantity of currency is increased, values rise, sales are made, and new adventurers contract fresh obligations.

  53. The quantity of sales broke the market, and the more liabilities were extended, the harder liquidation became.

  54. Long before the Punic Wars the Carthaginians had farmed Sicily on capitalistic principles; that is to say, they had stocked domains with slaves, and had traded on the basis of large sales and narrow profits.

  55. Before the sales yielded any return, the outlay reduced him to the brink of insolvency; nor did he achieve success until he had exhausted his own and his friends' resources.

  56. Not until 1814 did sales of public land begin in Illinois.

  57. The sales of public lands in Ohio were diminishing.

  58. During the third quarter of 1820, all sales in Illinois were at the minimum price and a considerable proportion were of the minimum area.

  59. Before the affairs of the Ohio Company had progressed far enough to permit sales of land to settlers, the little company at Marietta saw, with deep chagrin, thousands of settlers float by on their way to Kentucky, where land could be bought.

  60. As land sales in the Sangamon country, in which these counties lay, did not begin until November, 1823, these laws probably resulted from the formation of counties whose entire population consisted of squatters.

  61. It was also during this year that the first sales of public land in the Northwest Territory were authorized.

  62. Private sales at the land-office are fixed by law, at two dollars per acre.

  63. McGregor and brought the dying soldier the comforting news that enough of his books were already sold to provide generously for his family, and that the sales would aggregate at least twice as much by the end of the year.

  64. The actual sales ran somewhat more than this number.

  65. Webster handled it skillfully, and the sales were large.

  66. The rumors of coming disorder had also brought to the bear side the professional traders who foresaw a probable fall in prices, and by sales for future delivery did their utmost to bring it about for their own profit.

  67. He was pausing in the lobby to pass a word with an alert, bright-eyed man whom I knew as a broker, and I surmised that he was giving orders in regard to sales or purchases of stocks.

  68. He had written "Bamie," earlier in the summer, that he was "curious to see how the fall sales would come out.

  69. All monies obtained by such sales of cattle from the herd shall be divided equally between said party of the first part and said parties of the second part.

  70. Herbert Hyrel adjusted his white, silken mask carefully at the door and shoved his sales slip through a small aperture where it was thoroughly scanned by unseen eyes.

  71. It catered to a clientele that had but three things in common: money, a desire for utter self-abandonment, and a sales slip indicating ownership of a telporter suit.

  72. True, receipts for lands sold under the Special Sales of Land Act of 1901, being applied to the special purpose of retiring Treasury bills issued to make good revenue deficits, are excluded from the general law in this respect.

  73. A "bang-tail" muster is recorded in the station books, and, as all sales and other disposals are carefully noted and an allowance made of from 3 to 5 per cent.

  74. Yet as New South Wales practice had lent sanction to the use of land sales receipts as revenue, the Treasurer (Mr. R.

  75. As the Special Sales of Land Act of 1901 still remains upon the Statute-book a few words in explanation of its provisions and objects may be useful.

  76. These sales would have done the experiment no injury, but with the fifty to Canada went my chief herder and two of my other herders from Labrador.

  77. The next question is, how should the sales be made, and at what price.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sales" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    market; marketing; merchandising; retail; retailing; selling; wholesale