Sentence examples for selling things for from inspiring English sources

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Think about it this way: for years, banks were middlemen, buying and selling things for other people.

"I was about nine," says Smith, "and me and my friend had a stall selling things for Stalingrad.

"With enough data," Mr. Dhar said, "over time, it starts to get pretty accurate for what people are selling things for".

But at some point, somehow, it will have to become a normal business, which means selling things for more than it paid.

E-commerce companies tend to point to sales, revenues, and other markers of growth, while eliding figures that speak to the most basic goal of retail: selling things for more than they cost.

Of course, in the department store would there is always some question as to where altruism begins and fear-of-Macy leaves off, but at any rate, we now have a store selling things for no other reason than a desire to keep its escalators running.

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She gives George her business card which says "Small Pleasures" She says it is a store; she sells things for women.

I know that you don't get to sell things for long unless you are part of the culture into which you are selling".

We used to have a cardboard box where we would sell things for 10p and it took more money than everything else on the stall.

You set up shop in the backyard and sold things for a common, agreed-upon currency: "Hello ma'am, as you can see, I have fresh sassafras leaves and fine red dirt!

Through Mr. Lowenstein's compassionate eye, we watch as these fascinating coddled geniuses discover what any dedicated flea-market shopper already knows: in real life, people buy and sell things for reasons entirely unconnected to rationality.

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