Sentence examples for a local auction from inspiring English sources
It was just too big to trust to a local auction house.
— the rec hall has a wooden phone booth, which Mr. Littlefield picked up for $40 at a local auction.
It's a sort of online version of a local auction house, but one with global reach and where the sale room never closes.
In one episode Gerald and Kitten buy a truckload of useless things at a local auction, then decide on a yard sale to liquidate their overstock.
Oregon is auctioning seized and recovered property online as an alternative to selling the goods at a local auction or store.
When he was about 16, he worked at a local auction house lifting furniture, running errands and generally making himself useful.
For a start, some local auction houses seem to be wildly exaggerating their sales to big themselves up.
But since Roxie and Richard's last name is Bacon, it would be embarrassing for them to bid on a pig at the local auction.
"As well as providing a library service we have guest speakers come in, for example a speaker from the local auction house, who brings items and discusses the history behind them," says Sam Merron, 28, who volunteers there for a few hours a week.
Check your local auction sites for a good used battery.
The discovery of contemporary Chinese art, expedited by such connoisseurs as David Tang, the founder of Shanghai Tang, and Johnson Chang, the owner of Hanart TZ, Hong Kong's leading art gallery, has not spawned a culture of artistic appreciation here; rather, it has turned into a lucrative multibillion-dollar business in which local auction houses simply sell to private collectors.
