Sentence examples for be second-hand from inspiring English sources

Many benefits will be second-hand.

Any BMW stuck on transporters would be second-hand by the time anyone got their hands on it.

Children's games and toys were verboten; their clothes, when strictly necessary, would be second-hand, but their shoes could be new.

Up until a sponsor came through, our uniforms were going to be second-hand Italian uniforms with the Timorese badge sewn on.

I buy my clothes mostly in charity shops because you can get high quality stuff very cheaply and, if I get anything for the house, it tends to be second-hand.

Qualiaphiles apparently face the difficulty of establishing philosophical contact with the real when their access to it is seen by qualiaphobes to be second-hand and, worse, hidden behind a "veil of sensation"—a position that would slide easily into relativism and solipsism, presenting an ethical dilemma.

Much of its news is second-hand.

He said that all the models were second-hand.

Even the potter's wheel is second-hand.

Bridgen accepted that the evidence against Bercow was second-hand, not first-hand.

That accusation was second-hand and several analysts said it was unlikely to be true.