Sentence examples for sold rather than from inspiring English sources

It tends to be "sold" rather than "bought".

These measure number of tickets sold rather than box-office revenue, and so far are encouraging.

Some of what we are looking for was sold rather than lost but we don't know where it ended up.

Commercialization projects focus on turning research into drugs or other products that can be sold rather than financing research itself.

It had been expected that Time Warner's cable news channel, CNN, would be sold rather than kept alongside Fox News.

Senior posts in the world of bribes are so lucrative that they are sold, rather than applied for.

In other words, journalism that sells rather than just informs.

"You want to be selling rather than buying insurance right now," he said.

"Right now people seem more eager to sell rather than fight," he said.

DiCaprio, who keeps selling rather than acting his character, is the ultimate victim of Scorsese's over-driven vitalism.

If that is not possible, sell rather than give away carbon-emission permits, or raise the federal fuel tax.