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.'

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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.
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.
He urged booksellers to cooperate to form a nationwide chain of ecumenical book outlets that would be well-funded and professionally run.
At the time we weren't selling textbooks, just wholesaling them out to textbook dealers.
Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
The market opened 100 booths selling South Korean clothes on 2,600 square meters of floor last August.
The mystery of how to sell decent books consistently has eluded publishers and booksellers. Times, Sunday Times
And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
We are going to wait until we have refurbished and repainted it before selling.
GPs and counsellors would need to be involved. Times, Sunday Times
These companies will also sell you mason bee cocoons, if you don't want to wait for the neighborhood bees to stumble across your beehouse on their own. Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
Some menswear shops do sell more imaginative clothes - but the assistants have rarely met any customers over the age of 36.
Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck.
Often they were offloading defective goods they could not sell at a shop.
Rather than selling direct to pet owners, they initially tried the wholesale route. Times, Sunday Times
I have a feeling that someone has all the email from both accounts, and they are right now in some sort of shady deal to sell the data to $someone (or perhaps to Palin herself). MetaFilter Projects
In the premise of quality assurance, product diversification, style fashion, and make our products sell well at home and abroad, and won the trust of our customers and highly praised.
She drove a hard bargain with the seller.
Selles segaduses on ometi ka Eestis välja kujunenud seltskond inimesi, kes vaatavad kogu seda tohuvabohu, mis puhkimisi termini «fantastiline fiktsioon» alla mahub, kriitilise pilguga. Katsed nimetada saart: Konverents Eesti fantastikakriitika hetkeseisust
‘She's the first step to selling out the sport,’ one critic carped in an online discussion group.
There are six markets in total selling handicrafts and traditional gifts.
The selling may not see strong bids from regular customers because the sector's yield level is unattractively low, said Naoki Tsuchiyama , a market economist at Mizuho Securities. Japanese Yields Rise
I knew it was a scam, selling to these offshore skimmers.
Dot and I took some manchets about the manor to sell for charity, although she did all the talking.
By the early 1990s, Disney and Warner Brothers studios opened retail stores selling animation art.
Selling alcohol at truck stops is an unnecessary temptation for drivers.
He was also trying to sell a snowy owl without the proper permits. Times, Sunday Times
Negwako has established a store that sells traditional clothing worn by Tanzanian women, called kanga and vitenge. Kiva Loans
It is selling assets to free up money to invest. The Sun
Nature was obviously having fun here, chiselling the rocks.
`Just don't sell my warrant card on the black market, Larry. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Rosella seedlings are available through local nurseries from September onwards in the subtropics or during the dry season in tropical regions.
They sell better because the reading public feels it is getting value for money.
You're a con man and a money-grubbing sellout.
This is where another highly successful businesswoman with a love of property refurbishment is selling her home. Times, Sunday Times
They buy paintings at auctions, mark them up and then resell them at a vast profit to collectors.
At the root of the problem is nothing so mundane as access to the hills and glens but the booming industry in Scottish barony titles that sell on average for £55,000 each.
This time all three acts were paired with a work from Debussy – Act I with Printemps, Act II with Trois Nocturnes, and Act III with La damoiselle élue. Archive 2007-04-01
He treated the vast mineral wealth of his country as something for him to sell off to the highest international bidders.
And we buck intreat as good as designate a saied Thomas Russell esquier as good as Frauncis Collins gent. to be overseers hereof, as good as buck revoke all former wills, as good as publishe this to be my final will as good as testament. Archive 2009-11-01
Police say the weapons were seized as it is suspected that they breach the 1982 Firearms Act, which prohibits the selling of readily convertible blank firing weapons.
An arbitration tribunal from the International Chamber of Commerce ruled Cukurova Holding, owned by Turkish businessman Mehmet Karamehmet , must pay the amount, plus interest dating back to June 2007, after withdrawing from a deal to sell a stake in the company. TeliaSonera Wins Damages
Here a general murmur arose, and the teacher, opening her lips for the first time, ejaculated — “Silence, mesdemoiselles!” The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Street vendors sell bundles of sticky rice bound in banana leaf. Times, Sunday Times
(Under the Indian constitution nontribal people are prohibited from directly acquiring land in certain parts of the country, so the government must obtain it on their behalf and sell it to the companies.) India's Dirty War
The seller has to issue a tax invoice.
The grain distribution system currently has massive over-capacity, meaning any company can handle extra volume if it can sell it.
Many coffee farmers sell their beans to domestic traders for between 27 to 31 cents a pound, Robinson says.
Other interesting ones include figures from Pieter Breughel, the tessellations of MC Escher, and the composite portraits of Guiseppe Arcimboldo (for instance, his Vertumnus and Water).
It is notable for excellent supplying and selling with good quality, reasonable price and prompt shipment.
Ten men with chiselled faces and Kalashnikovs jump out and take up positions. Times, Sunday Times
Educators have also applied paper folding to such diverse mathematical objects as logical structures, axiomatic systems, and tessellations with geometrical figures.
This book will be a bestseller and this one won't be. Times, Sunday Times
We offered them a good price but they wouldn't sell.
And it became clear that he was not, apparently, the only person struggling to sell the furniture of a literary great. Times, Sunday Times
Not sure backstage before a sell-out show is the time to jot down ideas though. The Sun
No longer able to sell his craftwork, he has found it difficult to carry on his work on the church. Globe and Mail
I believe that they split the revenue according to the proportion of artists who are selling stuff in conventional marketplaces.
If the pub doesn't start to pay, we'll have to sell it.
After initially dismissing the likelihood that consumers would "cut the cord" by turning off their pay-TV subscriptions, media executives are starting to acknowledge the need to sell smaller bundles of TV to lure younger, and more cost-conscious consumers. Cable-TV Honchos Cry Foul Over Soaring Cost of ESPN
An accompanying book becomes a bestseller. Times, Sunday Times
The badges sell at 50p each.
They acted in bad faith by selling her a car that they knew to be faulty.
Some days it will be hot and sunny and on those days, you will want to make plenty of lemonade to sell.
Half-pipe, tan shingles created a beautiful tessellation on the roof - one Theorton considered if he were ever to purchase his own home some time.
It's a reductive attitude that sells Scotland short and it's one I detest.
Hence Google will be selling e-copies of digital and backlisted texts, and writing about the matter the Fast Company
I'm concerned for his mental health and would recommend counselling or possibly medication. Times, Sunday Times
The Crown case was that the lawful activity which they had intentionally disrupted was retail selling. Times, Sunday Times
She estimated that she's counselled about 400 people, almost all of them women, since founding the organisation.
The point is we felt that all agencies had a fair opportunity to sell the property, that we tapped a wide spectrum of potential buyers, and came out of the deal satisfied with the overall marketing effort.
Next to the pretty basic motel where I stayed was a shop selling and renting electric wheelchairs, and there they were in their serried hundreds.
It's ideal if you are selling something browsable.
If you are selling a health care product, I think it is vital that you are able to respond to queries with an educated and informed answer.
What the seller is asking for is some sort of deposit. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Sauntering over, he saw that they were inspecting the wares of a very nervous jerboa vegetable seller. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
And a man who sells wooden walking sticks and rolling pins may not seem to be a good global economic barometer.
So we've actually put in place a helpline, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for people to call, where they'll get professional assistance from people who are trained counsellors.
Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive. American Grace
The shop sells only fresh local produce.
There's no future in trying to sell furs in a hot country.
The happy event occurred in the Taylor's aviary in Wakefield, after the mother - a kakariki called Cheeky - and father Tom, a golden mantel rosella, were reared together from chicks.
Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.
By selling wine in such large quantities, the company boosts its average spend per customer.
Along with this, the arena's main concourse is narrow and crammed with useless kiosks selling everything from caramel apples to nachos to kettle corn, making the walk to the one smoking area something of a slow death march for the nicotine needy. From the Floor: A Happy Slab of Sandwich Meat
Vary the story to take in the white collar worker, the ice man let out with the coming of the frigidaire, the clerk displaced for the young graduate, vary it to include, if you will, the "chiseller" and the exploiter, but remembering that suffering, need, idleness and despair play their own part in turning the man who cannot work into the man who will not work. Canada's Problems in Relief and Assistance
The corporation is guaranteed this amount, and the investment banker takes the risk of selling issue.
The disclosures last night provoked renewed condemnation of Britain's multibillion-pound arms industry for selling to both sides in the escalating Kashmir crisis.
This goes against all accepted principles of counselling.
A three-bedroom townhouse will sell for about 440,000. Times, Sunday Times
The bank has been discussing a possible sale of the platform to local wealth manager IOOF Holdings Ltd. and a newspaper report Wednesday claimed that NAB has lodged an updated version of its bid with the ACCC, including a plan to sell North to IOOF for less than A$50 million. AXA Asia Profit Falls 19%
Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
Grandfather sold the russets and the codlings and the pippins from his orchard, and those he didn't sell he stored in his pristine white-washed cellar, where huge black hams and sides of bacon were hanging from black hooks.
The point is that Ikea sells inexpensive furniture of surprisingly high quality.
Established in 1971, the 13,500-square-meter megastore is an institution in Singapore, selling everything from saris to air tickets to canned chickpeas to Rolexes. After Hours: Singapore
Behind every brilliant best-selling author is usually a perceptive, savvy publisher.
His recipe books are bestsellers and he is lauded for his work in tackling childhood obesity. Times, Sunday Times
Remember, if you will (I certainly do), that one of the selling points of the post-VII "reforms" was that they enriched Catholic life and worship by making them relevant and immediate rather than old-fashioned (for which read "dignified") and outdatedly stiff (for which read "reverent"). You report: Promotional Posters for the Traditional Latin Mass
Check online for sites selling refurbished laptops or check your local dealer.
If you choose to returf, know that turf farms have minimum order quantities and delivery charges and may only sell to contractors.
He was feeding fish to crabs to fatten them and getting a good economic return from selling the crabs. Mary Robinson: Climate Change -- A Glimpse of the Future
Great Britain finalised their preparations at Salford and will have today off in readiness for tomorrow's sell-out clash.
But this doesn't deter many people from setting up sites selling counterfeit drugs. The Sun
Oxford Limited intends to offer colleges the opportunity to sell the items directly through the JCRs at competitive prices.
In fact in the recent case before the High Court, the counsellor failed to come up with a clear finding.
Wedgwood did not suddenly create and start selling his "basaltes" ware simply because it showed off white hands to advantage. "Selling was an intellectual pleasure, an art form" for Josiah Wedgwood.
Their ambition to succeed seems to be matched only by their hard-headed realism about selling and how to do it.
O'Connell sells contemporary glass sculpture, a popular medium for homes full of sun on the water.
Men is unlike anything else on TNT, and needed a more powerful lead-in than the puerile Franklin & Bash to sell it to a mainstream audience. Ask Matt: Midseason TV, Emmys, The Good Wife, Glee, Jesse Stone and More!
DELHI: India's Reliance Industries Ltd has awarded its term tender to sell diesel to traders Trafigura, Kuwait's IP. and Africa-focused Galana as it prepares for a surge in supply later this Oil company Reliance Industries is planning to export low sulphur diesel to refinery at Jamnagar comes on stream later this year, P. Raghavendran, the company's refining China will cut diesel exports in May by 40 percent versus April volumes to a four-month low of WN.com - Business News
The old fruit and veg market that once echoed with the calls of cockney costermongers is now home to gourmet burger bars and stalls selling Javanese pottery.
We now sell a boned and rolled loin of lamb for $26 a kilo, that only takes you 45 to 50 minutes to roast.
Those living more than 100 meters from the line are not entitled to any compensation even though many of their homes are unsellable and devalued by over 50 per cent.
Katy Perry labels fiance Russell Brand the ultimate 'bridezilla' RUSSELL Brand has been labelled a "bridezilla" by his popstar fiance Katy Perry. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Mindless bots, driven not to dominate but to sell, sign up for thousands of free email accounts every minute, sending millions of spam messages from them.
Monopoly is Hasbro's largest selling board game with 1.5m games sold per year.
They show page after page of "transactions," without any subtotals or easy way of matching buy/sell orders. Charles H. Green: Madoff: Investment Fund, or Virtual Reality Game?
Well, in view of the fact that there is a slave part in it, I shall do just as I said and make it tragi-comedy. nunc hoc me orare a vobis iussit Iuppiter, ut conquaestores singula in subsellia eant per totam caveam spectatoribus, si cui favitores delegates viderint, ut is in cavea pignus capiantur togae; Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
“Troth, my Lord maun be turned feel outright,” said the domestic, “an he puts himsell into sic a carfuffle, for onything ye could bring him, Edie.” The Antiquary
One overriding principle governs farmers' markets everywhere: the producer sells direct to the consumer.
Fussell’s topmost denizens were “out of sight” in hilltop manses at the end of long, curving driveways. Class Dismissed
They are part of a circular series of trades populated by sellers, buyers, buffers and ringmasters.
Instead, the hardcover edition of Seabiscuit: An American Legend remained on The New York Times best-seller list for 30 weeks.
The company has been accused of mis-selling products to thousands of elderly investors.
The designer said he has no plans to sell the tiara, and now wants to create a jeweled hair clip for his beloved canine.
It is illegal to sell alcohol to children who are under age .
We have been selling quality, industrial labelers for over 37 years.
Well before the beginning of the global economic crisis, a Brazilian street seller was on his way to becoming a very famous entrepreneur in the country by doing just one thing: selling popcorn, with a personal touch. 36 year old Valdir Novaki used to work as an itinerant farm labourer, until he arrived in Curitiba, in 1988, where he started working as a newsagent, then as a car park driver. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Tips to face the crisis from a popcorn street seller
They are making a hard sell.
I still think that pretty little Browning semi-auto would sell in other rim-fire chamberings. The Browning Wish List Roundup
If the seller is dodgy, then likely as not, so is the car.
Perhaps his most ambitious project is Hitlab.com, launched last September, an online community where aspiring artists can promote and sell their music outside record-label auspices. Akon's Recession-Proof Tune
It is rare to find somewhere still selling nitrous oxide so openly. Times, Sunday Times
Any record company that believes illicit song file distribution hinders their ability to sell music is deceiving itself - how else will anyone find out about the gazillion CDs that are out there?
One of the boldest moves she has made is refusing to sell her woodcraft to private collectors, no matter how much they offer.
Their game plan is to boost profits by selling more goods at regular price, instead of last-minute markdowns.
But the more the morselling of Christianity went on, the more dangerous became the raging ocean around it, so that now the Christian Archipelago seems to be quite covered with the stormy waves. The Agony of the Church (1917)
For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie (as alreadie yee haue heard) through counsell of the canons Yorke he refused so to doo: bicause they informed him that if he so did, it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée, whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie, so that he was bound onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
Robin Hood, the latest depiction of folklore's most enduring and filmable character — directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe — will open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and in theaters on Friday. Robin Hood's fluid identity flows on
That store sells men's wear.
The common thread in both situations is the communication of information in confidence to an adviser or therapeutic counsellor.
Those who invest with him get the motion picture -- meaning his ongoing judgment, including when to sell.
Don't try to be a counsellor or adviser within the family. The Sun
We just can't afford to buy a house at the moment. It's a seller's market, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker", selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital. News24
Selling fireworks should be prohibited other than for the few days immediately before November 5, unless the authorities give special dispensation for other events.
It's not customary for people in the publishing industry to ask what readers (as opposed to booksellers or authors or the press) want.
I met Len Sellers in the mid-1990s, when he was still a journalism professor at San Francisco State University, where, among other things, he taught a newswriting course that was generally considered make-or-break for aspiring journalists, a hard-core exercise in using public documents and other reliable information sources to write solid news reports. ... he was an early believer in the possibilities of online journalism. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nonprofit-Funded, University-Based News
Amazon can lay an ever-bigger claim to being the largest independent bookseller in the world, with today's news that the "etailer" has agreed to acquire AbeBooks. Amazon.com to Buy AbeBooks
An assignment or exit fee must be paid at the point of selling a leasehold village property. Times, Sunday Times
Police have declared war on rogue street sellers causing a nuisance to shoppers and traders in Chelmsford.
Overall, the night was infused with a special energy that came from the fresh faces in the sell-out crowd of 430 as well as from the glam factor.
You get 10% commission on everything you sell.
Doctors are selling because complying with the ever-growing list of mandates has become more cumbersome; and while staff physicians on salary do gain predictability, they also lose the autonomy of independent practice. Big Insurance, Big Medicine
Although still a tiddler in publishing terms, it stresses that it is not a one-author wonder and is building up a stable of big - sellers.
If you go to their site, they seem to be interested not so much in flying stuff to the moon but in selling beef jerky.
Certificate of Origin in 3 copies issued by SELLER.
Let me elaborate on why individual investors should never sell / "underwrite" financial options / insurance: Tan Kin Lian's Blog
Someday soon a Chinese ink painting is going to outsell Picasso," said Joe Lin-Hill , an emerging-markets professor at Sotheby's Institute of Art, a graduate school run by an affiliate of the auction house. The China Factor
Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
Logical Atomism is one important aspect of B. Russell's philosophical thoughts since 1899 and early L.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
The salesman can get commission on everything he sells.
Simple convenience as the abstract selling point for an appliance is a hard position to defend over any length of time; someone will inevitably separate the convenience from the hardware, and sell it at a significantly lower price. Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery
I also look forward to independent verification - or not - of the claims made by companies that sell us green products. Times, Sunday Times
This weekend Costco was selling flats of perfectly ripe figs. Yesterday I quartered and wrapped them in prosciutto for a quick, easy, and addictively good appetizer. Archive 2008-07-01
Her book has been an international best-seller for over a decade.
Arguments could rage over whether contracts were still valid, making properties unsellable for years. Times, Sunday Times
After 17 years of failed development plans, the owner agreed to sell the site for community use.
And that's another difference: Kate's e-mail "entrapped" Kinsella; Warman's e-mails aren't as subtle -- he doesn't entrap people into uttering racist remarks, he outright plants those racist remarks himself. Kate McMillan's prank - Ezra Levant
It was called Longitude and it became an international bestseller, making Dava Sobel the most bankable name in popular science writing.
But when the time came to strike out on his own, instead of livestock farming he plumped for growing and selling organic fruit and vegetables. Times, Sunday Times
And while the discounters sell a handful of branded items, most of their shelf space is for own-brand goods. Times, Sunday Times
In the absence of clear evidence that a spouse intends to sell or dispose of an asset or will be forced to do so, a court should not grant a deduction for notional sale or disposition costs.
As Valentine's Day approaches each year he stoutly proclaims his disdain for this "faux holiday, this commercial invention by some ad man or company created for the sake of making a few bucks, selling silly, heart-shaped cards, bouquets and chocolates. Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte
Many of her books became bestsellers. Times, Sunday Times
Some time later he experienced hard times and was forced to sell some of his land.
Package holidays to the best resorts and chalets - especially those including childcare - are selling fast.
Selling insurance overseas is Britain's largest invisible export .
Apart from the music there were stalls selling items from jewellery to stone ornaments for the garden, with products coming from all over the world.
Also Randy Alcorn, a well-known pro-life apologist and Protestant pastor, published a booklet in 1998 in which he gave the reasons for why the pill is an abortifacient and he has actually counselled couples in his ministry against using the pill for that reason. ProWomanProLife » A remarkably honest abortionist
She didn't want to confront the inescapable fact that she would have to sell the house.
First to appear is one of the counsellors who answers the phone when prospective patients initially call. Times, Sunday Times
It is not permitted to sell or otherwise distribute copies of past examination papers.
They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market. Inside New York City's Fishy Black Market
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. Bertrand Russell
Vermutlich nicht, da ich in den USA völlig unbekannt bin und bisher auch kein Mega-Bestseller-Autor in Deutschland. Guest Author: Michelle Raven
Published in 1918, the book was a sensationally fast seller and had to be reprinted six times within the year.
Coffey, who the U.K.'s Sunday Times dubbed "Wizard of Oz" in a nod to his homeland of Australia, is known for his quick- fire trading style -- buying and selling large volumes of securities daily. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
Follow the counsell of your deare nourice Radegonde, whoe loueth you better than her owne soule. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
So if you missed out on tickets for the sell-out Edinburgh event, make your way to the Globe Arena on September 10 and 11.
Two booze barons are shipping in illegal hooch to the village in the boots of their cars and selling it to youngsters at knock-down prices.

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