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Example sentences for "sell the"

  • It was learned that they were going to sell the weapons in Cian, and they were released from custody, on condition that they would sell the goods here.

  • Neither would the Chinese come here with their ships to sell the goods, or at least not in so large numbers; and besides the general loss to this land, there would be lost the customs duties of import and export.

  • He entreated me to dispatch matters, sell the flat-boat in which we had been living, and get him and his trunk, containing the proceeds of the trip, on board the steamer as quick as possible.

  • Things remained in this condition for a considerable period; my occupations being to superintend the farming operations, and to sell the produce in the neighboring markets of Washington and Georgetown.

  • If you make up your mind to go housekeeping and to sell the boat, let me know.

  • Once each week or so Peter rowed to town to sell the product of his jack-knife and such fish as he caught.

  • I don't want you to think I'm doing this just because I want to sell the boat, George.

  • He first of all declared that his daughter should not be taken away to Mr. Keegan's--that his own son had deserted him and tried to sell the estate, and that now they meant to rob him of his daughter!

  • It would be a thousand times better, said a great jurisconsult, to sell the treasure of all the convents, and the plate of all the churches, than to sell justice.

  • Gikáhas níyag baligyà ang bábuy, He took it upon himself to sell the pig.

  • Iaríya dáyun ang abut inigprisyu, Sell the produce at once when the price rises.

  • Then we'll sell the furniture--every last stick!

  • I never understood exactly myself, but your grandpa says they squandered all their money and then got mad because they had to sell the place.

  • I never could help liking him, and I was sorry when he lost his money and they had to sell the Hall.

  • It had been necessary to sell the estates; the palace had emptied, gradually sinking to the mediocrity and bourgeois life of the new times.

  • Sell the owner on the idea that reinsulation will prevent the possibility of his battery breaking down when he may be out on a tour, and when it may be necessary to have his car towed in to a service station.

  • The thing to do is to sell the customer a new battery.

  • If you feel that a battery will not give at least six months more service after rebuilding with the old negatives, put in all new plates, or sell the owner a new battery, allowing him some money on the old battery.

  • Mrs. Winter had refused to sell the business, but Jake had engaged extra help and they had arranged for a long holiday.

  • I'll hold on while I have a dollar, but I don't want to sell the mine.

  • I wanted you to sell the store, because, if I'm satisfied with Langrigg, you mayn't come back.

  • But if the nation is going to bait me, and rob me like this, I'm damned if I won't sell the lot.

  • Soames had ever resented having had to sell the house at Robin Hill; never forgiven his uncle for having bought it, or his cousin for living in it.

  • When Stepan Arkadyevitch had gone down in the spring to sell the forest, Dolly had begged him to look over the house and order what repairs might be needed.

  • I have told Sokolov to sell the wheat, and to borrow an advance on the mill.

  • And so you did give him leave to sell the horse, eh?

  • But I was willing to accommodate you by undertaking to sell the horse, seeing it's not convenient to you to go so far to-morrow.

  • Then came the question of sentence, and on this the Lord Chief Justice did his best to save us; we were acquitted of any intent to violate the law; would we submit to the verdict of the jury and promise not to sell the book?

  • She agreed with her chum that he had acted dishonestly in trying to sell the stone.

  • No doubt Mrs. Marborough has returned to sell the property," Mr. Franklin said musingly.

  • I certainly hope Mr. Franklin fails in trying to sell the stones to the museum.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sell the" 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:
    allowed them; answer whether; bare subsistence; being persuaded; biographical sketch; congratulate myself; could observe; fact that; friendly manner; given volume; how could; human beauty; kind enough; large capital; sell goods; sell papers; sell the; sell their; sell them; selling goods; selling price; speech made; thus translated; well established; will take; you speak