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Example sentences for "traded"

Lexicographically close words:
tractors; tracts; tractu; tractus; trade; tradeing; trader; traders; trades; tradesfolk
  1. That day the impressionable aborigines traded at Fort Union.

  2. Where Henry's men traded furs with the Indians, Grand Forks stands, the second largest city in the State, and hub of a rich agricultural region in the Red River Valley.

  3. He had traded in the river country for many years, and his success at this new fort named for him made it one of the most important Missouri River posts.

  4. Aku and his lieutenant traded swift glances, neither said anything.

  5. Aku and the lieutenant traded a long, silent look, then the lieutenant almost imperceptibly shrugged his shoulders.

  6. The first white man who traded here was my friend Morrison, after whom the highest hill in the vicinity was named.

  7. Allen: A small looking man; he was nicknamed Twahalasky, Indian name for coon; and a small-sized Cascade Indian bearing that name traded names with Allen.

  8. A number of prairie chickens were shot, powder was traded to the Indians for a few potatoes, a kettle was borrowed and the weary travelers gave themselves over to a feast, which, at intervals, was prolonged through the night.

  9. As Mr. Finley was contemplating the building of a mill the next summer he traded for a fat ox which I had brought with me, intending to butcher him when he commenced work, but soon after the Indians left the ox disappeared also.

  10. He found that the latter landed and traded securely--or rather, as if by right.

  11. Pinto sold his merchandise at whatever price he wished, and traded for and bought a cargo of provisions at will.

  12. This commodity is also traded in the Ylocos, for at the rear of this province, which borders the seacoast, are certain lofty and rugged mountains which extend as far as Cagayan.

  13. Here the slaves were traded for local agricultural products which were wanted in Europe.

  14. At this point, the European traders entered into hard bargaining sessions with the representatives of the local ruler in which the manufactured goods from Europe, especially guns, were traded for African slaves.

  15. The captain was drunk, and I traded with the mate.

  16. We suffered but two or three persons to board us at a time, and traded with them for dried fish, sea-otters, beaver and reindeer skins.

  17. It was not a part of the world where an English ship was likely to come, because in those days they were nearly all Spanish vessels that traded in these seas, and the English and Spaniards were bitter enemies.

  18. For the pilgrims were clothed with raiment that was very different from the raiment of any that traded in that fair.

  19. They have traded him to Sieur Joliet for beads.

  20. A great jealousy subsisted between the Londoners and those foreigners who traded here.

  21. Late last night three Kootanies arrived from Flat Head Lake & traded 3 small beaver and few ribs of dried venison, they report that the Kootanies & Flat Heads at the Lake are employed hunting Beaver.

  22. Some Pendent Oreille Indians arrived and traded about 20 beaver.

  23. An old Flat Head chief Le Buche, the only one yet arrived visited the Fort with 8 or 9 attendants, who traded in the course of the evening 13 bales of meat and a few beaver skins.

  24. Traded salmon from them to serve the people 2 days.

  25. Two horses were traded from them which makes 4 today.

  26. The Indians traded two more Horses which detained us till after breakfast when we proceeded up the River till 11 oclock when we encamped a little below the Forks at the lodge of an Ind.

  27. A few more Indians visited us but only 4 horses were traded & two of these are young ones not broke in.

  28. Embarked at 3 oclock passed the (Lampoile) River at 9 where we breakfasted and traded a few pieces of dry salmon from the Indians, and encamped past 6 oclock.

  29. Little doing in the way of Trade, a few fish and roots but no beaver worth mentioning--A horse was traded today.

  30. Joe had limited himself strictly to that which they could not do without on the Trail or would need for starting a new life in Oregon, and he sold or traded everything he could spare.

  31. They had left the Mormon Trail and had come into Missouri for food, and because they hadn't any money they traded the goods in their wagons for bacon or grain.

  32. Joe had traded a shoat for the chest of drawers some six or eight years ago.

  33. Part John Geragty would take as pay for his labor, and the rest would be sold or traded for all the things they needed and did not have for their trip to Oregon.

  34. In this vast region of forest and prairie the only settlements were the scattered French hamlets, begun in the early days of exploration, when the French occupied the land and traded with the Indians for fur.

  35. There the skins are traded for the needed iron or salt.

  36. So his father apprenticed him to a merchant at Whitehaven who owned a vessel and traded in goods brought from other lands.

  37. The area was paved with real Turkey stones, of a small size, the gift, as tradition reports, of a merchant who traded to that country.

  38. The shop I took, with the sign of the Black Raven, stood opposite to the Poultry Counter, where I traded ten years, as all other men must expect, with a variety of successes and disappointments.

  39. Hughes and Neil traded in slaves down the river: they had bought up a part of their stock in the upper counties of Kentucky, and brought them down to Louisville, where the remainder of their drove was in jail, waiting their arrival.

  40. He went up the Potomac and traded for corn; rescued an English boy from the Indians; had brushes with the savages.

  41. Their cabins, their tiny hamlets were far apart; they practised a hazardous agriculture; they hunted, fished, and traded with the Indians.

  42. But New Englanders traded still in South Virginia as along other coasts.

  43. Indians came singly or in parties from their villages to the white men's settlements, where they traded corn and venison and what not for the magic things the white man owned.

  44. He came ashore to Charles Town, and they traded with him there.

  45. Then over they ran to the West Indies, and got in exchange sugar and rum and molasses, with which again they traded for tobacco in Carolina, in Virginia, and in Maryland.

  46. Hal had traded between the two countries, and had enjoyed intercourse with King Olaf the Saint, by which he had gained greatly in reputation, and he had become well acquainted with the kingdom of Norway.

  47. Sigvat always inquired of the merchants who traded to Novgorod if they could tell him any news of Magnus Olafson.

  48. Mostly my father traded to England, for there are few of the Saxon kin who take ship for themselves, and the havens to which he went were Tetney and Saltfleet, on the Lindsey shore of Humber, where he soon had friends.

  49. But my father was careful that none of the Lindsey folk whom he had known should think that this fisher was the Grim whom they had once traded with, lest word should go to Hodulf in any way.

  50. At Siriam Nicote regulated the custom-house pursuant to the instructions of the viceroy, obliging all vessels that traded on the coast of Pegu to make entry at Siriam, and pay certain duties.

  51. From Ormuz, Sampayo dispatched Hector de Sylveira to cruise off Diu, on purpose to intercept the ships of the Red Sea that traded with Cambaya, of which three were taken.

  52. This king was persuaded by the Moors who traded to his port to turn Mahometan, and gave them liberty to build houses at Calicut.

  53. In 1738 John Elton traded between Astrakhan and the Persian port of Enzeli on the Caspian, and undertook to build a fleet for Nadir Shah.

  54. They traded also on the Red sea, and opened up regular traffic with India as well as with the ports of the south and west, so that it was natural for Solomon to employ the merchant navies of Tyre in his oversea trade.

  55. Among these were the brothers Polo, who traded with the East and themselves visited Tatary.

  56. That the Indians traded among themselves is unquestioned.

  57. They were gathered and traded in--yes, and used--even until the middle of the 18th Century.

  58. The Muskegons, around James Bay, traded their furs with their southern neighbors for birch bark, out of which to make their canoes.

  59. The tannery company traded me a lot of their stock for the rest of my back lot and for the rest of your gravel, and they tore down the blacksmith shop, and I traded their stock and some other things for the house where we live.

  60. The factory company traded me ten shares of their stock for part of your land on which they built.

  61. I traded that stock for ten acres of rocky land along the road, across the Cocahutchie, up by the mill.

  62. Half of it was yours to begin with, and now I've traded you the other half.

  63. Footnote 133: They were purchased from the merchants of Adulis who traded to India, (Cosmas, Topograph.

  64. They were soon abandoned on the mail trails, and the prospector, after one season's experience, slaughtered his reindeer and traded its meat and hide for a couple of dogs.

  65. Every year large bales of good though left-off under and over wear are secured through church organisations outside, and are traded to the natives at nominal prices, usually for fish or game or a little labour in sawing wood.


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