Sentence examples for secondhand about from inspiring English sources

Once a week I drive a used hatchback I bought secondhand about five years ago to Waitrose.

And while there is something wishful and secondhand about his devotion to them, there is also something earnest and touching.

Mr. Radnor came up with it after hearing secondhand about the preachings of a "self-helpish teacher-slash-L.A. guy my friend used to go listen to in the valley," he said.

Mr. Silverton recounts how she bought the car from him secondhand about four years ago without knowing that its previous owner had been Bono, the lead singer of the rock band U2.

I had such a mistaken idea about Anita Brookner's novels, until I picked up The Latecomers in a secondhand shop about 10 years ago, and read the first wonderfully concrete sentence.

The calls brought a torrent of secondhand rumors about his abduction and torture.

Among Lumpe's fifteen thousand LPs, many of which he bought secondhand, were about five hundred of murky provenance.

In fact, things were so safe that Rabe felt "secondhand guilt about not being in a combat unit".

Somewhere on his route from home to school to play dates and back again, he's picking up secondhand notions about the food supply.

And he was eager to enhance his secondhand ideas about how the world works with firsthand images and experiences, which he eagerly incorporates into "Moby-Duck".

I've heard some secondhand stories about Dylan from people who have worked with him and it sounds like he's quite tricky.