Sentence examples for bartering in from inspiring English sources

Ukrainian politicians are busy bartering in the run-up to parliamentary elections scheduled for October.

You did a lot of bartering in those days: you used to buy rabbits with the skin on, or an old cockerel.

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — In the old bazaar of this ancient city, long entwined with Syria, the loud chatter of Syrians' bartering in Arabic has given way to unfamiliar silence.

The reason bartering in cities and suburbs doesn't work is that inhabitants consume and produce diverse things, and they don't trust one another.

Greeks have bartering in their veins and are falling back on extended-family and community networks to swap goods, rather than buy and sell.

Bartering in Lingala and English, Spinelli pretended to be interested in a dried monkey, whose hands grasped nothingness with unappetizing despair; he picked through yams but didn't buy any.

The poster pretty much disappeared after the war, but an original copy of it turned up in Barter Books in Alnwick in 2000.

They huddled, struggled and bartered in the face of dive-bombers and mass hysteria.

Far more dangerous contraband than fake bills is bartered in the conflict zones.

In Bangkok, we careered around on tuk tuks, bartered in the streets and partied in the dodgiest dives.

But after Rome's collapse, traders resorted to barter; in Japan they started to use rice instead of coins.