Sentence examples for sold for nothing from inspiring English sources

In the 50s, land on the Cape sold for nothing.

Previously it was Fab.com being sold for nothing after severely underperforming — ah, Fab, the first billion-dollar retail "unicorn" born with crossed eyes and a trick knee.

It was sold for nearly nothing, in carelessly assembled lots, and mostly snapped up by dealers at a raucous auction held to pay his creditors, primarily the Marquess of Queensberry, who was awarded £600 in court costs after Wilde had disastrously and unsuccessfully sued him for libel.

But three years back, this stunning property could have been sold for absolutely nothing.

Perhaps he had sold out for something; perhaps he had sold out for nothing; he wouldn't say anything to any such reporter; he was still staying incommunicado.

I just want to say that it's extremely upsetting to see quilts and patchwork projects being sold for next to nothing on Etsy.

It follows a series of books that he had, in recent years, self-published and sold for next to nothing on Amazon including a "shadow version" of a "stillborn" book that F.S.G. had, he claimed, commissioned, but which never saw daylight.

For example, when Buffett was getting control of Berkshire Hathaway in the 1960s when it sold for next to nothing, she describes him buying shares "from sellers who had been his former partners, although perfectly legal, it was not exactly sporting conduct".

This is dramatic music that wants to be glamorously sold — not for nothing has Joshua Bell made it a calling card — but Ms. Hedlund seemed unwilling to sell it.

You sold Iraq for nothing.' I was called a traitor.

The decision to sell meant that Chris-Craft, which had rolled up more than $400 million in losses in trying to establish UPN, was forced to sell for virtually nothing, just as UPN was showing signs of becoming a valuable media asset with strong ratings from its wrestling programming.