Sentence examples for are bid from inspiring English sources
verb
To issue a command; to tell.
One-point perspective and the Renaissance notion of the picture plane as a window are bid fond farewell.
Stocks with positive earnings surprises are bid up even further and those with negative surprises are beaten down even more.
The going rate for the work ranges from 80 cents to $1.20 for each 1,000 deciphered boxes, according to online exchanges like Freelancer.com, where dozens of such projects are bid on every week.
Under these agreements, the project owner — sometimes a private corporation, sometimes a government body — negotiates with unions before any contracts are bid to set rules on benefits, hours, holidays and other matters.
On other occasions when famous characters and series are bid adieu, their creators may contrive a cliffhanger, an actual tumble (à la Sherlock Holmes, Professor Moriarty and Reichenbach Falls in Conan Doyle's "Final Problem") or a moment of passionate and intense surprise (à la Ian Rankin's John Rebus in "Exit Music").
Trotted out too often, or too vehemently, it can make those who rely on it sound suspiciously like one of the "mothers and fathers" that Bob Dylan addressed back in 1964 — those people whose "order is rapidly fadin'," whose "old road is rapidly agin'," and who, finally, are bid, "Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand".
"You are bidding against the unknown".
Everything is important when you are bidding".
Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow also are bidding for the Games.
Two people are bidding at an average price of $375.
