Sentence examples for as a secondhand from inspiring English sources

It cost as much as a secondhand Mini.

Madama Butterfly's Japanese theme was mocked, and its tragic heroine was derided as a secondhand copy of Mimì from La Bohème.

Our fashion label, Red or Dead, began life as a secondhand clothes stall in Camden, and when we expanded all our shops were fitted with "upcycled" furniture.

She even gives classes in manners, and takes students to the opera to reduce social barriers.Yet if the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium comes across as a secondhand Mercedes in good repair, the Pestalozzischule is more like a beat-up Volkswagen.

She was a tough but kind character who ran her own business as a secondhand goods dealer, and was helped in raising the children by a family friend, Thirza – later immortalised in Lal's Song for Thirza.

These bikes often cost as much as a secondhand car (tricycles can cost up to £3,000), an issue that can be addressed nationally with tax breaks such as the UK's Green Commute Initiative, or at city level with accessible cycle hire.

Or, make the same amount go twice as far at a secondhand book store.

Its black humor, designed to come off as stoic and heavy with Mitteleuropean irony, is flippant and sophomoric as only a secondhand account could be.

Third single 'Teardrop' pivots on the same Lalo Schifrin riff that Portishead lifted, but as atmospheric as it is, it remains a secondhand idea.

"The way we as a society have treated secondhand smoke has evolved over time," he said, adding that there was a time it was perfectly acceptable to smoke in the workplace or anywhere in a restaurant.

But the memories described here have a secondhand feeling, as if the author had spent as much of his formative teenage years watching late-night cable as he did on the street.