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Example sentences for "unsaleable"

Lexicographically close words:
unsaddling; unsafe; unsaid; unsalable; unsalaried; unsalted; unsanctified; unsanctioned; unsanitary; unsated
  1. Jack, "eating the grass of sheep and cattle, and being totally unsaleable themselves, unfit to eat, and hardly worth boiling down.

  2. Jack found his indifferently got-up clip quite unsaleable in the colonial market.

  3. In the first place he was always wanting to do literary jobs for a friend, and so advised the publishing of all sorts of unsaleable books, because his friends desired to write them.

  4. Of course with such interfering causes to bring unsaleable books to the house--of course I do not mean that John Ballantyne and Co.

  5. The dead man's debts amounted to £3000, and his assets consisted chiefly of unsaleable pictures, on most of which his creditors had liens.

  6. The truth is that dates will from henceforth be almost unsaleable here.

  7. I remembered my dreadful poverty, only so recently past, and I shuddered as I considered those unsaleable dates and my black future!

  8. In a lofty hall of the Fonda, I had an excellent supper, washed down by a flask of capital bordeaux, which, the maestro informed me, had lain an unsaleable drug on his hands for eleven years.

  9. Nichols tells us that the expression 'rum books' arose from Osborne's sending unsaleable volumes to Jamaica in exchange for rum.

  10. There was a time when even old and unsaleable books had a commercial value.

  11. On the other hand, the same fact indicates a much larger surplus of unsaleable means of subsistence than is suggested by the amount of this surplus in terms of value.

  12. Now nothing unsaleable is left, and the crisis is happily avoided; over-production is made impossible once and for all, capitalists and workers alike are safe; the name of v.

  13. Now his every penny was sunk in unsaleable securities, his credit was pledged to the bank, his counter was idle, while trade creditors whom in the race for wealth he had neglected were pressing him hard.

  14. The pedlar was anxious to do business, and Barnum knew that his employers had a quantity of goods that were regarded as unsaleable stock.

  15. The Arab sellers probably now move to the other side of the machine to carry away the unsaleable wheat, the barley being bought for export owing to the turn of trade.

  16. Now Bass, as already related, had brought out to Sydney in the Venus a large quantity of unsaleable merchandise.

  17. Here, then, was a singularly courageous man, fond of daring enterprises, in command of a good ship, with an unsaleable cargo on his hands.

  18. Long-time rates on formerly unsaleable loans would fall, and rates on highly saleable loans would rise.

  19. The process of creating credit is a process of transforming rights from unsaleable to saleable form.

  20. Every simoniacal contract is invalid and of no force either in the external or in the internal forum, because it sells what is unsaleable under divine or ecclesiastical law.

  21. For although the mere prohibition of the Church does not make a non-sacred thing sacred, it does make the non-sacred thing unsaleable precisely because related to things that are sacred.

  22. Of the unsaleable nature of this publication, he relates an amusing illustration.

  23. That which three years ago was a drug altogether unsaleable by private bargain; has now many inquirers after it, and ready purchasers at good prices.

  24. The quantity of rice, which is of the small, broken, unsaleable kind, is one peck.

  25. Taylor it was who, when Borrow determined to try his fortunes in London with those bundles of unsaleable manuscripts, gave him introductions to Sir Richard Phillips and to Thomas Campbell.

  26. Borrow wrote four books that will live, but had publishers been amenable he would have published forty, and all as unsaleable as the major part of FitzGerald’s translations.

  27. A little more than a week ago they were unsaleable at twopence each.

  28. Or, by the time that he does appear upon the scene, his shares may again be unsaleable at twopence apiece, and all his profits may have gone.


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