Word Finder - sold

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(ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

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I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.

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To be sold.

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The corn sold for a good price.

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To promote a product or service.

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To promote a particular viewpoint.

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My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.

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To betray for money.

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To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.

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To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

I thought you sold the ranch.

He sold the house after his release so he's in the chips.

They sold like homemade ice cream on a summer day.

He sold his first painting at age fifteen – something like $17,000.

He only sold them – for money.

Dean figured the trunks sold for about a dime a pound.

Had he already sold the ranch?

I already sold 'em for five hundred.

He created many new offices and shamelessly sold them.

Maybe a couple of hundred sold so far, all in California.

He sold cardinals' hats.

He did, however, find a sales ad for a truck camper that was sold about that time.

Connor had sold his condo, but Elisabeth still owned her home.

Maybe he sold something else to someone.

All fairs and markets were sold with the manor to the inhabitants of the town.

Deidre stopped to admire bouquets being sold on a street corner.

I sold nearly everything and even contracted four portrait commissions.

If you hadn't sold off all the farm equipment, you could have kept it brush hogged.

She had done that when they sold the goats, but then she had been in a rush.

The rafts used are the so-called kelleks, of wood supported on inflated skins, which are broken up at Bagdad, the wood sold and the skins carried back by caravan.

Her father's palace was pillaged by the Turks, and as a child of four years old she was sold to the comte de Ferriol, the French ambassador at Constantinople.

If he appropriated or sold the implements, impoverished or sublet the cattle, he was heavily fined and in default of payment might be condemned to be torn to pieces by the cattle on the field.

The Mercers' School, Dowgate, was originally attached to the hospital of St Thomas of Acon, which was sold to the Mercers' Company in 1522, on condition that the company should maintain the school.

In 1017 the place was transferred from the bishopric of Wiirzburg to that of Bamberg; in 1361 it was sold to the king of Bohemia.

The second man then spoke up and said, It is true that I sold him the ground, but I did not reserve anything he might find in it.

You mean, after you sold her out to Talon?

If he hadn't saved that nobleman's child years ago, you'd have been sold on the auction block, her mother said.

By his will he directed that all the presents he had received should be sold, and the proceeds applied to the completion of Thorwaldsen's monument of Pius VII.

He was buried near the house, which was sold by his daughter some years after his death.

In order to undertake the crusade Godfrey sold the castle of Bouillon to the prince bishop of Liege, and the title of duke of Bouillon remained the appendage of the bishopric till 1678, or for 580 years.

In 1553 the commissioners of chantries sold the chapel to the inhabitants to be continued as a place of divine service.

Only seven of the Magyars escaped, and these were sold as slaves on their return home.

Sold as seal.

At first it was chiefly used for blending with the wines of the Champagne when the vintage in this district was insufficient, but at the present time it is largely sold under its own name.

The wines of these vineyards are sold every year by auction early in November, and the prices they make serve as standards for the valuation of the other growths.

In 1824 the Real del Monte mines were sold to an English company and became the centre of a remarkable mining speculation - the company ruining itself with lavish expenditures and discontinuing work in 1848.

Sixty thousand copies were rapidly sold.

Before slavery was prohibited in the Territory by Act of Congress in 1862, Indian captives were regularly bought and sold, a traffic sanctioned by custom and not prohibited by law.

Madonna (now in Dresden) was sold by the monks in 1754 to Frederick Augustus III.

Diimmler opened tombs at Dali, Alambra and elsewhere, and laid the foundations of knowledge of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age; 17 and Richter, on behalf of officials and private individuals, excavated parts of Frangissa (Tamassus), Episkopi and Dali.18 In the same year, 1885, and in 1886, a syndicate opened many tombs at Poli-tis-Khrysochou (Marium, Arsinoe), and sold the contents by auction in Paris.

He then sold Cyprus to the Knights Templars, who presently resold it to Guy de Lusignan, titular king of Jerusalem.

The "dolce libriccino," the famous Trattato utilissimo del beneficio di Gesu Christo crocifisso verso i christiani, which was the composition of a Sicilian Benedictine and had been touched up by the great latinist Flaminio, just appeared at Mantua in 1542 under the auspices of Morone, and had a wide circulation (over 40,000 copies of the second edition, Venice 1543, were sold).

When the salesperson rings up your purchase, no one tells him he had better forget what shoes he sold you with that suit and not to use that information to advise any future clients.

The majority of processed food sold in the United States contains GMO.

Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable.

The whole lot contains eleven acres, mostly growing up to pines and hickories, and was sold the preceding season for eight dollars and eight cents an acre.

As for a habitat, if I were not permitted still to squat, I might purchase one acre at the same price for which the land I cultivated was sold--namely, eight dollars and eight cents.

I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods.

But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.

She wrote that if he did not come and take matters in hand, their whole property would be sold by auction and they would all have to go begging.