[
UK
/sˈɛl/
]
[ US /ˈsɛɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛɫ/ ]
VERB
-
deliver to an enemy by treachery
Judas sold Jesus
The spy betrayed his country -
be responsible for the sale of
All her publicity sold the products -
be approved of or gain acceptance
The new idea sold well in certain circles -
be sold at a certain price or in a certain way
These books sell like hot cakes -
give up for a price or reward
She sold her principles for a successful career -
persuade somebody to accept something
The French try to sell us their image as great lovers -
do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
The brothers sell shoes
She deals in gold -
exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit
He sold his house in January
NOUN
-
the activity of persuading someone to buy
it was a hard sell
How To Use sell In A Sentence
- The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
- I am told that Ferguson has called me 'unsellable'. The Guardian World News
- It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
- These include a nice Nigerian guy who sells the best roast chicken around (he did this in Paris as well), a couple of Egyptians and a Tunisian who make great chicken shawarma and a couple of Turkish guys who do the same with beef.
- ‘If you've no wish to sell the charcoals,’ Rachel began, ‘I don't at all blame you.'
- He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
- While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
- Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
- But that is much more easily done if Cassell can reassume his role as the offensive ignition.
- A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
