Sentence examples for heated auction from inspiring English sources

Inevitably a heated auction is soon under way.

But a heated auction appears to be brewing for Great Wolf Resorts, the big indoor water park operator.

The company will publish coming books by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, concluding a heated auction among multiple publishers.

Its publisher, who bought it for a six-figure sum in a heated auction, is promising it will be "irresistible, brilliantly observed and wickedly funny".

Last summer, the Dow Chemical Company won a heated auction for a well-run, highly valued specialty chemical company called Rohm & Haas.

The duo's appointment was announced by Universal Pictures, which spent a reported $5m acquiring movie rights to the book and its two sequels, during a heated auction in March.

Though she's unsure of how heated that auction competition will be, Ms. Bailey-Taylor is fairly certain that Ava Gardner (or James Stewart or Clark Gable for that matter) will never face competition from the new generation of film stars, that there will be no Angelina Jolie Museum or Brad Pitt Birthplace Home.

The auction was heated, and initially included IAC, New York Times, DJ and News Corp. IAC didn’t end up bidding, News Corp dropped out as the price went above $300 million, Dow Jones couldn’t pull it together in the wake of all the turmoil with News Corp bid, and New York Times was in there until late in the game.

Guests lounged in the manicured gardens before moving into a tent for dinner, performances, the official ceremonies and an auction, which heated up quickly.

When an auction heats up, the fact that you are the winner suggests that others reached more realistic assessments of the item's true value.

And as the auction heats up, McClatchy said that it received a request for additional information from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding its pending $6.5 billion acquisition of Knight Ridder.