Sentence examples for we bartered from inspiring English sources

"We bartered; I dyed his hair green and he gave me all these free CD's".

"We bartered with him: he painted the wall for us and stayed with us for free while he was doing it," she says.

We bartered the drug for four rolls of toilet paper," says Carlos Gonzalez, 35, an IT worker whose wife is expecting a baby next month.

We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.

We bartered with people whom we trusted.

We bartered for food with whatever we had: mobile phones, shoes or wallets.

Nor should we barter the sanctions we imposed in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, making it a pawn in some cynical swap with Putin.

3) We've bartered our economic freedom away and tied our economic future to Japan and China.

We've bartered away our right to self-governance, self-defense, privacy, autonomy and that most important right of all -- the right to tell the government to "leave me the hell alone".

There are, of course, incalculable benefits to a nation's culture (how can we barter with our own sense of self as a nation?) but at times like this, the pragmatic arguments for investment are compelling.

If we barter away the victim that was pivotal to the fall of the USSR, we would justly be condemned for our moral sordor and our sterilizing wash of history.