Sentence examples for secondhand with from inspiring English sources

You wonder if this was one of the copies he sewed into a coat sold secondhand with the hope that it would reach the enslaved.

Even Tutankhamun's famous death mask is said to be secondhand, with inscriptions superimposed over older ones that Reeves believes spell out Nefertiti's name.

I'm still ashamed to admit that I wasn't one of the lucky 1,000 people invited to the party — old prerogatives die hard — so I was trapped on shore, covering it secondhand with a nose pressed up against the glass.

As a former ski bum, I've always chafed at not knowing about the next great place -- at being the guy who has to buy his secrets secondhand with beers at the bar, then jockey for powder turns with everybody else who's come late to the party.

This behavior, according to Beem, came from people who purchased items secondhand with the sole intention of returning them.

In part with the exhibit Take Me (I'm Yours), currently on display at the Monnaie de Paris, the Vienna-based publication group saxpublishers has supplied the Monnaie's neighboring secondhand with a line of padlocks for sale, engraved with images by Olga Balema, Verena Dengler, Lena Henke, Benjamin Hirte, Yngve Holen, Lisa Holzer, Chadwick Rantanen, and Ben Schumacher.

An interesting observation was that respondents with secondhand experience with heart disease (a family member had had heart disease) answered very much like respondents with no experience with heart disease.

The store is about six hundred and fifty feet square, its peeling paintwork illuminated by fluorescent light; it is crammed with rack upon rack of secondhand clothing, with hand-lettered, improbably high price tags pinned on.

He'd bought a secondhand guitar with the money.

But this volume is less intriguing, a bit secondhand, compared with this author's earlier work.

Across the road is a secondhand store with, among other curios, a display of right whale vertebrae.