How To Use Selling In A Sentence

The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
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.
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.

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We are going to wait until we have refurbished and repainted it before selling.
Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck.
Rather than selling direct to pet owners, they initially tried the wholesale route. Times, Sunday Times
‘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.
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.
It is selling assets to free up money to invest. The Sun
Nature was obviously having fun here, chiselling the rocks.
This is where another highly successful businesswoman with a love of property refurbishment is selling her home. Times, Sunday Times
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.
It is notable for excellent supplying and selling with good quality, reasonable price and prompt shipment.
I believe that they split the revenue according to the proportion of artists who are selling stuff in conventional marketplaces.
They acted in bad faith by selling her a car that they knew to be faulty.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Such schemes help older homeowners to unlock money from their property without selling. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
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
But this doesn't deter many people from setting up sites selling counterfeit drugs. The Sun
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.
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.
Monopoly is Hasbro's largest selling board game with 1.5m games sold per year.
The company has been accused of mis-selling products to thousands of elderly investors.
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
It is rare to find somewhere still selling nitrous oxide so openly. Times, Sunday Times
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)
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.
An assignment or exit fee must be paid at the point of selling a leasehold village property. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
I carried on looking at different shops selling their wares.
It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
The top selling non-fiction book Blink is coining mucho bling for Malcolm Gladwell, yet in 1997 Gladwell wrote a New Yorker article called "The Sports Taboo: Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls," which made exactly the same argument as Larry Summers made about what is innately different in the capabilities of males and females -- that men have a larger standard deviation on many traits, so there are more men at the top and bottom of the bell curves. Archive 2005-02-27
It rejected a host of tentative offers for the business in favour of selling individual stores. The Sun
Finding a Unique Selling Point for banking services is no easy matter these days.
Forms of peddling would change and evolve, but street selling remained part of the urban economic, social and cultural fabric in urban America well after the wave of anti-noise regulation discussed here.
Businesses selling seasonal knick-knacks at discount prices are popping up all over Greater Manchester.
Food shops line the outer edges (selling, for a Brit, remarkably reassuring grub like sausage rolls, meat pies and fish and chips).
(A striking example of this hypocrisy was the solicitude displayed by the Russian landowners last year, their efforts to combat the famine which they had caused, and by which they profited, selling not only bread at the highest price, but even potato haulm at five rubles the dessiatine (about 2 and four - fifths acres) for fuel to the freezing peasants.) The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Politics like practically everything else nowadays is a matter of packaging and selling, be it an individual, a Prime Minister hoping to make an impact, or a policy.
Some of the food vendors with barbecues decided to stick it out in the rain selling Indian tacos and macaroni chili.
With all of their manufactured steel, vulcanized rubber, and processed plate glass, Model Ts were selling at about 25 cents a pound - perhaps the best bargain in the industrialized world.
No man's land is less than a mile wide and contains a handful of stalls selling fish and caviar. Times, Sunday Times
He soon encountered a girl of about ten, who was selling limeade at a sidewalk stand. Heart vs. Head
I was an actor, flat broke and selling records at Selfridges. Times, Sunday Times
Today, also odd sock day, students and lecturers will be selling themselves to carry out jobs for the week.
Most collectives meet their expenses by selling their surplus pot to dispensaries or directly to other patients.
Sarah Palin, I would prefer to be a community organizer, as I am, rather than be a quitter and abus girl who goes from state to state selling books. Palin blasts the 'Obama doctrine'
Small classes are a selling point for private schools.
His new video game is apparently selling like hot cakes.
A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books! Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
His thinking has affected modern approaches to therapy and to counselling and education.
The government restructured the coal industry before selling it to private owners.
The agent is quoting a selling price of just over €2.5 million for the building, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.51 per cent.
Nevertheless, many Third World countries still rely heavily on selling raw material commodities as their principal source of income.
The Dallas Mavericks put bar codes on tickets, not just to track sales of the ducats, but to make sure they are selling them to folks who actually fill the seats.
To help reduce its borrowings it is selling a number of assets. Times, Sunday Times
Police arrested the threesome on the grounds of selling illegal lottery tickets and brought them to the police station.
Behind these small downward statistical movements are people who are finding selling surprisingly tough. Times, Sunday Times
Infinit is also your store if you are interested in selling your actual assets: thanks to the infinit AssetsPLUS™ program, you can easily "re-marketing" under utilized assets in order to save money...and to invest them in more useful products, like, for example, new Network Security solutions. Archive 2008-06-01
All along the middle of these blocks are kiosks selling various wares of t-shirts and handbags and jewellery etc.
Scores of you owled to let us know the auction was completed, with the book selling for a record $19,120. The Leaky Cauldron - News
Pastor Rick Warren's best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life" is suffused with predestinarian themes, repackaged as a gentler divine providence. Highway To Heaven
There is a man with a stall selling hazelnuts. Times, Sunday Times
They quickly became the best-selling school texts nationwide.
Entrepreneurs are good at selling and getting clients together, and they're natural optimists. Times, Sunday Times
Alternatively, you could seek your own counselling or psychotherapy to try to find the underlying problem and work out what to do about it.
All this makes depressing reading for those who put off selling this spring in the hope things would pick up by autumn. Times, Sunday Times
Selling online saves money and saves hassle. The Sun
He hit the headlines two years ago when he was arrested for selling drugs to the Prime Minister's nephew.
By contrast, there are only about a thousand commercial beekeepers in the U.S., people who make a living harvesting and selling honey and wax and renting bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.
High street banks seem to lurch from one mis-selling scandal to the next. Times, Sunday Times
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
But that law can't be used to stop people selling heaters at car boot sales.
greige" shade debuted on the runway in October, and since going on sale in January, the company says it is its top-selling polish and has sold out three times on The Seattle Times
There is even a radiogram, one of the pieces which the Dowager Duchess herself is selling: it is of course a rather grand walnut veneered model by the royal jewellers Garrard and Co. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch £2.5m
They survive by selling ice lollies on the streets. Times, Sunday Times
This was accomplished by the trades of buying September for ￡59900, and selling March for ￡62025.
Sales agents acting on behalf of manufacturers, are vigilant in preventing retailers from selling at lower prices by threatening to cut future supplies.
I used "factory owners" only because I have no better image of the kind of people who benefits from a general lowering of salaries, and "workers" - how do you call the people, very numerous, who live by selling their unspecialized or barely specialized labor. How Everyone Can Get Richer as Per-Capita Income Falls, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The most impressive breakthrough in this period was nevertheless made by Le Petit Journal, a Parisian daily of tabloid size, launched in 1863, and selling for one sou.
This was a fine adjustment, for by working hammer-and - tongs through a twelve-hour day, after freight had been deducted from the selling price of the wood in Los Angeles, the wood-chopper received one dollar and sixty cents. Chapter V
Swindon Counselling Service, a registered charity, has 16 years of experience in helping people to get through rough patches in their relationships and also come to terms with unacknowledged emotions.
This hyper-rationality applies not just to the business itself but also to the people in the business, where youll hear terms like abilities, skill sets, experience levels, leadership style, selling style, promotability, and high potential. Go Put Your Strengths to Work
The amount of people that have come out of the woodwork selling stories. The Sun
The English were looting the Spanish, transforming the cash gained by selling off their medieval patrimony, and the coal hewn from their provinces, into a truly extraordinary epoch in human culture.
He also tried to make use of the by-products of oil, selling benzine, paraffin, and petroleum jelly, and at one point drawing up plans to convert sulfuric acid into fertilizer.
I am 23 and want to open a market stall selling pre-loved clothes. The Sun
When Tuscany was being carved up everyone wanted to be in the Chianti or Chianti Classico region, as this was the best selling and most well regarded of Italian wines.
Another woman explains how a food co-operative has been set up, buying in bulk and selling at no profit to members.
The markets are becoming very popular: there can be about 40 different stands selling fresh agricultural produce at any one time.
Maria scurried to the booth where she would be selling chili, tortillas, enchiladas and the like.
We're looking for someone with a proven track record in selling advertising.
They emphasised that volunteers must be non-judgmental in their dealings with people and non-directive in their counselling.
The Northern responded to three newspaper advertisements placed by people selling the sought-after vouchers and asked the selling price.
It was important, however, and when in the 1870s James Shorb, a typical pioneer, found that many of the million bottles of wine he was making every year proved unsaleable, he reverted to selling only brandy.
But fans of the best-selling books plan to boycott the movie. The Sun
Banks may still be selling unsuitable hedging products to small companies, the City regulator has warned. Times, Sunday Times
Former "ethnic" goods are rarely differentiated, with grocery stores selling Bok Choy next to spinach, lemon grass alongside parsley, and Indian chutneys in the ketchup and mustard aisle.
It chiefly concerns one Alex-Li Tandem, who deals in fame, obtaining, verifying and selling autographs.
They found out my eBay ID by searching for an item they knew we were selling and have looked at my listings. The Sun
Sylvia, receiving this into a sore and raw consciousness, said to herself with an embittered instinct for cynicism that she had never heard more euphonious periphrases for selling yourself for money. The Bent Twig
His old fellow made his tin by selling jalap to Zulus or some bloody swindle or other. Ulysses
She found a job selling cosmetics.
The regulator says Trillium, through nine proprietary traders, sent non-bona fide orders into the markets to create false volume, thereby attracting buying or selling interest.
The prevalence of competitions in general shows the American need to be better than anyone else at something, whether it is selling cars or memorizing state capitals or knowing how to spell dvandva. A Conversation with Myla Goldberg about Wickett's Remedy
I wanted to be an actress but the furthest I ever got was selling ice-creams in a theatre.
Payment protection insurance has come under the spotlight in recent years because of widespread mis-selling. Times, Sunday Times
stands selling homegrown fruits and vegetables
Thieves are obviously stealing the grates and selling them for scrap metal, which is bought by the kilogram.
Investors around the world have been selling equities because of fears about anaemic global growth. Times, Sunday Times
Counselling acted as a curb on his violent behaviour.
As albinism is of genetic origin, genetic counselling should be available to teenagers.
In one corner, you'll find an enclave of butchers, delicatessen and food stalls, including a cluster selling plump, briny Gower cockles and fresh laverbread. Swansea's top 10 budget eats
Football coupon betting spread in the 1890s and Manchester's Athletic News, a football weekly, was selling 180,000 copies by 1896.
She found instead that the Vegas wedding chapels, "with their wishing wells and stained-glass paper windows and their artificial bouvardia," were in fact selling "'niceness,' the facsimile of proper ritual, to children who do not know how else to find it. The Wedding Merchants
But we'll keep them in twinsets for the actual episodes, so the women's magazines can keep selling that crap about how the ladylike look is in again.
The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99.
The law prohibits tobacconists from selling cigarettes to young men.
Since the commission is always negotiable, and the agent's only true incentive is the commission, there's good reason for them to take on the extra work, and the seller can potentially realize the same or more net with a lower selling price. Something's Gotta Give
Rather than pursuing the holy grail of million-selling titles, the company is focused on achieving annual profitability.
He kept the house for only a short time, selling it in 1946 to a fellow called Ed, who planned to fix the place up.
It is not a trade fair, so will not be out there selling product product.
Supplies of some fast-selling vehicles including the Prius, the Nissan Rogue and Subaru Forester already are beginning to dwindle. Dealers Shift Gears as Inventories of Made-in-Japan Cars Run Low
More than 35 Thai restaurants had set up and sold their specialities, and there were booths selling a wide variety of Thai handicrafts and food products.
Even today, White Christmas stands as the best-selling record of all time.
A man in the street was selling bags of hot chestnuts.
Small kiosks selling snacks and bottled drinks are to be seen along Pyongyang's pavements. Times, Sunday Times
Do not choose a selling agent based only on the promise of a higher price; this can be a tactic to secure a mandate[sentence dictionary], without the necessary follow-through.
Wine merchants do not want to be known for selling them on. Times, Sunday Times
If you're selling your home, setting the right asking price can make all the difference.
The most important form of programme trading is the buying and selling of shares as part of index arbitrage.
His story was made into a best-selling book. The Sun
The net profit figure includes a one-time gain of S$229. 7 million from selling 39 million shares in Chinese shipbuilder Cosco Corp. Rig Maker's Net Plunges
It is not an unreasonable hope, but it could be an impatient expectation that sees you selling yourself short. Times, Sunday Times
He concluded the value of refitting the boats, at a total cost of $46.2 million, was below what Pricewaterhouse-Coopers then estimated the ferry corporation could get by selling them.
The last festival depended on selling exhibition space in large marquees as well as satellite exhibition space to cover the cost of the festival, which is intended to be self-financing.
Is it showing how you can help someone or the stereotype of the pushy, obnoxious sales associate selling a service or product for which you have no need?
Leech had a picture of "A Quiet Smoke" in _Punch_, which depicted five ladies in short wide skirts and "bloomers" in a tobacconist's shop, two smoking cigars and one a pipe, while "one of the inferior animals" behind the counter was selling tobacco. The Social History of Smoking
They should produce a comprehensive White Paper on disinvestment for serious debate before selling a single sou of public assets.
Nor at this stage either does he mention the buying and selling of blood for medical purposes. The Times Literary Supplement
Most people have forgotten that Apple introduced its first handheld device back in 1993: the woefully bad Newton, which was about the size of a hard-bound Stephen King novel big! and had truly pathetic handwriting-recognition software - supposedly its biggest selling point. How they sell you what you don't understand
He reminds them likewise of the wickedness of those that were the patriarchs of their tribes, in envying their brother Joseph, and selling him into Egypt; and the same spirit was still working in them towards Christ and his ministers. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
No doubt many countries around the world - particularly those who have a few extra coins jingling in their emerging market pockets from selling crap to US consumers, would like to see the power of the US Dollar and thus the US of A significantly reduced. Why US Dollar will remain as World Reserve Currency!
The comics have gone through a series of artists, and have proven to be best-selling graphic novels.
It is now the largest selling monthly magazine for young women in almost all of the countries in which it is published.
Britain last year spent nearly ￡5000 million more on importing food than selling abroad.
The father of another said he did not blame the university, which is expanding its counselling service. Times, Sunday Times
You can now watch competitive car selling. The Sun
Not only are her paintings immensely popular, selling for at least $100,000, but she also creates serigraphs, stone lithographs, and limited-edition prints.
Minority voices on both sides will complain and accuse their governments of selling out.
Trading standards officers warned that convenience stores may still be selling products which have been withdrawn. Times, Sunday Times
The major accomplishment involved selling the council and some of the staff on several new housing rehabilitation and repair programs.
Sole Agency One agent has exclusive selling rights for a given period.
‘No planning permission is necessary if the same shop were to be converted into an off-licence selling beer, spirits and wine,’ he said.
Instead, say campaigners, Australia needs to adopt a nationwide feed-in tariff structure that would allow users to generate revenue by selling excess power back to the grid.
The guy selling them tried to say they were "overstocked". Is Your New Leupold Scope A Fake?
The youngers will be saying'Why would I go and work in the supermarket like my mum when I can earn 200 a day selling drugs ' Times, Sunday Times
The word impertinent has appeared in 12 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 4 in "Hermès Is Selling Its Stake in Gaultier's Fashion House," by Suzy Menkes and David Jolly: NYT > Home Page
Although this has narrowed choice, these bank advisers had become tainted with the stain of past mis-selling. Times, Sunday Times
During a downtrend, shorts are selling aggressively while the only participants that are buying are bottom pickers.
Qualcomm Inc. provided more evidence that smartphone demand is surging, as well as signs the company may be taking sales from rival suppliers of chips for the fast-selling devices. Qualcomm Raises Outlook
BMW are now the country's best-selling premium car brand having sold more than one million motors there. The Sun
In this diary, the heroine is more likely to spend her days loading cartloads of hay and selling cattle rather than counting calories and swigging Chardonnay.
Don't buy knock-offs - they are rip-offs for everyone concerned - except the guy selling them.
Voice over Anyone considering selling counterfeit goods at car boot sales could face two years in prison or unlimited fines.

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