The phrase "auction was won" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a bid in an auction has been successful, resulting in the acquisition of an item.
Example: "After a fierce bidding war, the auction was won by a collector who had his eye on the rare painting for years."
Alternatives: "the auction was successful" or "the auction concluded with a win".
Many eBay auctions are won by a few cents.
The movie had its première at the Toronto International Film Festival, in September, where it inspired a standing ovation and, more important, an informal auction, which was won by Paramount.
One roster spot was put up for auction on eBay, which was won by Hirshfield with a bid of $2,125.
We're learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
MadBid says it generated over £2.5million in the first year of operation and it's sold over £5million worth of products and 80,000 auctions have been won.
Some of the licenses that were recently auctioned had initially been won in a 1996 auction by a company that was subsequently unable to pay the $4.7 billion it had bid for 63 licenses.
This morning marked a minor marketing coup for Hewlett Packard, which announced a pact to create a "Digital Photography Zone" on eBay, the auction site where deals are won, lost and often priced according to just how flattering an item's picture may be.
Hearing that her peers are still treating women like objects to be won at auction was a wakeup call.
Land records show that 82 percent of land auctions in Beijing this year have been won by big state-owned companies outbidding private developers — up from 59 percent in 2008.
A1 Cablevision Rattles Auction Cablevision Systems is in talks to join two private equity firms that are bidding for Adelphia Communications, adding an 11th-hour twist to an auction that had seemed certain to be won by a combined bid from Time Warner and Comcast.
