How to Use auctioneer in a Sentence

auctioneer

noun

• The auctioneer started the bidding at $100.
• Celebrity auctioneer and food guru Billy Harris has been tapped to lead a live auction.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Christie’s auctioneer Gemma Sudlow, head of private and iconic collections, took to the rostrum on Tuesday to lead the sale.
  — Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 10 Nov. 2021
• In the end, the auctioneer's sales pitch on the chapel organ paid off.
  — Freep.com, 12 Feb. 2021
• But who is the auctioneer putting up all of these signs?
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Weights and prices flashed on screens above the auctioneer’s head.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Sound effects offer up the voice of the slave auctioneer, the moaning of the slaves, the rattle of chains and the crack of the whip.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 May 2017
• The date for the auction has not been set, lead auctioneer Jeff Siska said.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 14 July 2023
• The theme of five runs throughout the stone, according to the auctioneer.
  — CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
• This event is emceed by Claudette Fried and Scot Haney is the auctioneer.
  — Courant Community, 16 May 2017
• And then if there’s excess demand, the auctioneer raises the price and puts up the call again.
  — Thomas Gryta, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
• And selling dreams is the work of marketers and auctioneers.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Amazed by the story, the auctioneers welcomed the TV crew to their premises.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 13 Sep. 2019
• In demonstrating the piece, Beeple even played with the auctioneer.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2021
• As usual, the auction would end when bidding topped and the the auctioneer banged the gavel.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 13 June 2020
• On May 11, the evening party was in full swing by the time the auction started with Weezie de la Vergne as the auctioneer.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 8 June 2017
• The auctioneer starts up again, now with higher prices.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• Barron first learns of the stamp from a Sotheby’s auctioneer and strings along the small drama of its sale throughout the book.
  — Sarah Laskow, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• If there are more than five players, the banker may choose to act only as the banker and auctioneer, opting to not play.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
• From many corners of the 200-acre grounds, loudspeakers broadcast the voice of the auctioneer up on the podium.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Jan. 2022
• But that was in an auction room, with an auctioneer, and live bidders.
  — James Tarmy, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2021
• Brady came out of retirement and wanted Lelands, the auctioneer, to void the sale.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
• The end of the evening features dessert and a live auction featuring guest auctioneer Gene Michael Deary.
  — courant.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• In the case of the current study, the bidders were selling something (their use of Facebook) to the auctioneers, instead of the other way around.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2018
• Ken Goldin, the auctioneer in charge of selling the ball on behalf of Cory Youmans, the lucky spectator, thinks the ball will sell for more than $3 million.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Sadly, there was no auctioneer available to drown her out that time around.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 5 Sep. 2018
• These, and so much more, to be transported elsewhere with the bang of an auctioneer’s gavel.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• His father was a fruit auctioneer on the city docks, and his mother was a homemaker.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• If people stayed long enough into the evening, the auctioneer might slash that oak bedside table down to $30.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 12 Jan. 2022
• For the past several years, the auctioneers have been trying to sell the property.
  — Devin Kelly, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024