Sentence examples for spirited bidding from inspiring English sources

Spirited bidding erupted.

The jewelry appeared to attract some of the most spirited bidding.

After spirited bidding, it sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for $5.5 million.

The delicate, decorative 16-inch vase started at a not-inconsequential $800,000, but after a half-hour of unexpectedly spirited bidding, the gavel fell at $69.5 million.

He ended up in a spirited bidding war with another man in what he described as "some auction house version of Stockholm syndrome".

After spirited bidding, Lot 242, simply labeled "Hair Supplies," was hammered down to a private collector for $4,800, plus the auction house's 25percentt buyer's premium.

That's the only way to explain their spirited bid to draw Trump's blood in the latest Republican debate on Thursday.

A Mexican central banker, Agustín Carstens, is also mounting a spirited bid for the managing director post at the I.M.F., but with the deadline for nominations looming, Ms. Lagarde has been viewed as having built a daunting lead.

Thus far most of it has gone to script for the great man: a world time trial title in 2014, a spirited bid to win the Paris-Roubaix Classic last year, that Hour record.

In a spirited bid for undecided American voters to see him anew, Mr. Trump swept into Mexico City to make overtures to a nation he has repeatedly denigrated, then flew to Phoenix to outline in his usual bullying tone his latest priorities on immigration.

The competition here has been complicated by spirited bids by Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, each of whom has calculated that coming in second, or perhaps third, in Iowa would lift his candidacy going into the New Hampshire primary a week later.