How to Use dealing in a Sentence

dealing

noun
  • There were reports of shady dealings between the two sides.
  • He has a reputation for fair dealing.
  • These incidents do not involve some other crime, such as robbery or drug dealing.
    Barry Latzer, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The second season focuses more on their business dealings.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The defendants face maximum sentences of five years in prison for each count of conspiracy and unlawful dealing in firearms.
    Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Madlib is seeking to dissolve their business dealings and demanded that he be paid unspecified damages related to their businesses.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Some addiction medicine experts and providers have expressed concerns about concentrating treatment programs in environments with drug dealing and use on the streets.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022
  • As always, Maxo’s syrup-thick voice and consonance-heavy flow detail the wheeling and dealing of a life on the street, with an introspective approach most save for therapy.
    Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Unfailingly polite and deferential to colleagues, Gilbert has formed friendships on both sides of the aisle — in part through a reputation for straight dealing.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Common money laundering offenses involved activities such as gambling, smuggling and drug dealing, the report said.
    Jing Yang, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In the latter scene, a superhero-like fantasy of whimsical death dealing, Wright displays the heights of his own choreographic inspiration.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Part of my dealing with it is to talk about it and share it.
    Tanisha Thomas, Billboard, 21 July 2022
  • The area has long been a hot spot for open air drug dealing and drug use.
    Vincent Hill, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Never mind that Getz’s job was to do some of the dealing.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
  • One was about the homicide, and the other was about drug dealing.
    Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The store is across the street from U.N. Plaza, where drug dealing and use are commonplace.
    Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But, all of that wheeling and dealing would be for nothing.
    Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Jack Nunge's dealing with a cut on his face and he's been forced to check out of the game until Xavier can get the bleeding to stop.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The idea that Joe Biden knew nothing about the business dealings is falling apart.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • That, more than all the drug dealing said to take place, is the business world that produces many of these rappers.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • But the document raised new questions about the men’s dealings.
    Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • With all the backroom dealing, McCarthy may secure the job title, but not the job.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the Chargers don’t do a lot of wheeling and dealing, period.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • A lot of world leaders want to have some sort of dealings with Putin, to reach agreements, to conduct some business with him.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Along the way, there was some indication that the F.B.I. was aware of his dealings with the Albanians.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • As for the bankers’ own views of their dealings with Trump, testimony was often oblique.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Dream’s founder, Richard Berlin, declined my requests to comment on the record about his dealings with Madruga.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But phones are also used to carry out drug dealing and other crimes.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The city's Tenderloin neighborhood is rife with open-air drug use and dealing.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 15 June 2023
  • Fakir looked the part of a star but was gracious and down to earth, happy to chat with fans and sign autographs in his day-to-day dealings at grocery stores, banks and the like.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024

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