Sentence examples for exciting auction from inspiring English sources
East doubled this, and three passes ended a confused, exciting auction.
It was, we admit, a pretty exciting auction: among the lots was Bono's customized guitar, which sold for nearly half a million dollars to the Irish singer Damien Rice, who also performed.
This was one of the biggest single-owner sales ever of modernist art, and by far the most exciting auction since Christie's Yves Saint Laurent sale in Paris two years ago More than 260 bidders registered for the auction, called "Closely Looked" by the auction house, compared with 143 for Sotheby's main sale two days earlier.
The party unveiled the much anticipated, first ever prêt a couture eclipse LUXE collection by Sonny San and an exciting auction of eclipse's "10 years of Allure" collection – a revival of eclipse's 10 key signature pieces selected from the past decade.
"What's really exciting about auctions is that buyers feel they have a say in the construction of the price," said Robert Doyle (no relation to Brian), who with his wife, Sue, owns Absolute Auctions in Pleasant Valley, about six miles from Mr. Navarra's operation.
Anyone who has ever watched a speed-talking auctioneer whip bidders into a frenzy before banging down the gavel -- or who has participated in eBay's electronic equivalent -- will find Google's auction less exciting and more mysterious.
"What makes this auction especially exciting is that all 19 cars from the Lüscher collection are being offered without reserve," says Morris.
Their support is what makes the annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction so exciting, so successful.
What has surprised him is how retailers view auctions as exciting events to draw people to their sites.
Some of HutH's most exciting set pieces occur in auction houses, where men who wear Bluetooth headsets and have a near-palpable air of coffee breath about them drearily bid against each other in a room with the all the vibe and elan of a post-Thatcher job centre.
Auctions may be exciting for the bidders, but are they fun to watch on television?
