Fish commonly sells for four sols the twelve ounces, or five for the English pound; and these five are equivalent to three-pence of our money: but sometimes we are obliged to pay five, and even six sols for the Piedmontese pound of fish.
The tobacco the king manufactures at his own expence, and sells for his own profit, at a very high price; and every person convicted of selling this commodity in secret, is sent to the gallies for life.
I am told that the produce of the islands is at present cheaper here than where it grows; and on the other hand the merchandize of this country sells for less money at Martinique than in Provence.
The edible turtle[2] is found on all the coasts of the island, and sells for a few shillings or a few pence, according to its size and abundance at the moment.
One of these "sporting buffaloes" sellsfor a considerable sum.
An importer who sells one thousand five hundred eyes annually sends one-third to Canada; Chicago takes three hundred; and Cincinnati more than St Louis.
He sells comparatively few eyes in this city, as New Yorkers prefer to have their eyes made to order.
As for her painting, doubtless she does that to remind her customers that she sells alabaster powder and ceruse.
And you have such an air of being wise beyond your years; wise in all thoughts that are not of the world--thoughts of things of which there is no truck at the Exchanges; which no one buys or sells at Abingdon fair.
He is but an extravagantly paid official, whose office is a sinecure, and who sells something of his prerogative every session for a new grant of money.
If you are not in an early locality you are obliged to produce for the main crop, and nothing, to our knowledge, sells as well as the Burbank, if you get a good one.
To produce such milk requires much expensive apparatus and much more labor than to produce ordinary milk, and as a result it sells for a much higher price, both to distributor and consumer, so that the market for it is rather limited.
He has had it surveyed into lots, and sells to such of us as wish to join in the cause.
She sells them to the highest bidder, to the hardest, wisest worker for the boon.
He who sells his neighbor's credit at a low rate makes the market for another to buy his at the same rate.
Cabbage here sells at a dollar a head and lettuce at almost as much.
The man who sellsthe mower may not be able to explain any part you don't understand.
WILD RICE Wild rice sells for two or three times the price of ordinary rice and the supply never meets the demand.
Many of your customers who are actually in the market for them do not realize that the furniture store sells pillows.
As this is written, there is before us copy of a double-page spread by a well-known company which sells home furnishings.
For instance, Mr. Poneropolous, the well-known contractor whosells shoes to the army, informs me the Greeks as one man want war.
The rule is that the hotel clerk discovers a vacant room, a ticket speculator disgorges a front-row seat, and the ship's doctor sells you a berth in the sick bay.
His commerce is hindered by his exaggerated attention to trifles, but when he sells you a pair of boots, you can put them on, and walk in them.
The fine large ones he binds together andsells at high prices under the name of English asparagus.
He knows when he sells a man a ticket through to California or even down to New York that the train is going to be a poor one, made up of old equipment, probably late, and certainly overcrowded.
But marvellous as they are, their possessor is obliged to sell them, because while they are yielding their product he must meanwhile live, and he sells a day's use of them for a day's means of living.
Now the sheep owner sells and continues to sell his wool in Europe for gold.
Therefore, if a private trader sells soap at a profit of one farthing a box, the State or Municipality can sell soap one farthing a box cheaper, other things being equal.
And you know that where two or more employers are offering their goods against each other for sale in the open market, the one who sells his goods the cheapest will get the trade.
If a certain weight of yarn costs nineteen shillings to produce, and sells for twenty shillings, there is a profit of one shilling.
He sells the mule for forty francs and the saddle for sixteen francs.
A writ of arrest comes from Polidori, for having "casse ses lunettes et fait tomber son chapeau" of the apothecary who sells bad magnesia.
The man that sold him good wine in his better days sells him poor whiskey now; and the confounded dealer in fancy poisons has taken the houses of Mr. Follet, brick by brick, and piled them up in his own yard, so to speak.
He regards it merely as an investment; and when things about him are beginning to wear an aspect of comfort, when his property has become valuable, he sells it, packs up his wife and little ones, and goes again into the woods.
In which case Jones probably sells it, and immediately builds two others twice as big.
An impecunious earl, we will say, sells his ancient family estate.
Its popularity has dipped somewhat in recent years, but Esquire still sells one million copies per month.
When the frame-work knitters of silk stockings petitioned Oliver Cromwell for a charter, they said, "the Englishman buys silk of the stranger for twenty marks, and sells him the same again for one hundred pounds.
The division of employment goes on to the creation of a wool-factor, or dealer in wool, who either purchases directly from the grower, or sells to the manufacturer for a commission from the grower.
They said, "the stranger buys of the Englishman the skin of the fox for a groat, and sells him the tail again for a shilling.
A woman gifted with beauty, who sells it to buy wealth, is far more leniently handled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
