Sentence examples for exactly selling from inspiring English sources

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Yet Taz wasn't exactly selling sex by choice, either.

Bad Santa proved in 2003 that it is possible to engage comedy audiences with a festive film that isn't exactly selling fuzzy and feelgood, but The Night Before appears to have missed the mark.

(Although if I'm honest, this doesn't exactly send out good signals about your employer: no appraisals, not a murmur of any cost of living pay rise, let alone promotion - it's not exactly selling itself as company of the year).

He's not exactly selling out -- that happened in his flush jingle-writing days (beer commercials, feminine hygiene products; "soul-killing stuff," he says), not to mention those episodes he cooked up for the 80's version of "The Monkees" sitcom -- but he's unraveling.

Both the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight are already on the market, but these cars have severe limitations in drive quality and carrying capacity, and are not exactly selling like hot cakes.

A Moto rep tells me that it's closer to two than one… but when swappable backs are the device's whole raison d'etre, that's not exactly selling like hot cakes.

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"It doesn't exactly sell like hotcakes," he added.

(Still, I can see why nothingness, as an argument for the old way, doesn't exactly sell itself to the networks).

To say Jane wasn't exactly sold on the idea would be an understatement; in fact, the uncouth word she used to express her feelings rang loud in my ears for the next 12 months.

Nice violin, but this song is so underwritten lyrically and melodically that it feels less like an emotional climax and more of an afterthought; Minaj's careful, by-the-book and by-the-autotune performance doesn't exactly sell it, either.

Plus, ArtistsOnline doesn't exactly sell itself.

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