Sentence examples for auction you from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "auction you" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to the act of putting someone up for auction, but it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "I can't believe they would auction you off like that at the charity event."
Alternatives: "put you up for auction" or "sell you at auction".

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"Usually, at an industrial auction you get 100, 200, 300 people.

With an auction, you can consign a large number of bicycles to the auction.

Typically, in an auction, you are competing or playing with or against the other bidders.

For more information about the auction, you can call (310) 385-2699 or visit www.christies.com.

However, if the opponents win the auction, you have given the declarer a road map for the play.

Okay, so the idea here is: in a common value auction you need to shade your bid considerably.

The first recorded auction you may have heard about was–Herodotus describes the Babylonian auction in 500 B.C.

"If you go to Sotheby's or Christie's and buy something at a public auction, you don't think you are doing anything inappropriate," she said.

If an opponent opens with a pre-empt, and you enter the auction, you should assume that partner has 6 or 7 high-card points.

If you're in a common value auction, you need to bid as if you have been told that your estimate is the highest estimate.

So a first-priced sealed-bid auction is what we just did, and that's a typical auction you might see, for example, in house sales.

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