How to Use gray market in a Sentence

gray market

noun

• But for Jeff, there's no gray market in weed in New York.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The demand was so intense that a gray market sprang up for them.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
• Cettire could be seen as a case study in how a company operates around the gray market.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• But no one wants black or gray market transactions going on in front of their house.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2020
• Sheehy was still hunting for supplies on the gray market.
  — Doug Bock Clark, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2020
• There haven’t been any accidents publicly known to have been caused by faulty chips purchased on the gray market.
  — Bybloomberg, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2022
• Still, incentives remain for customers to look to the gray market.
  — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• In the absence of a decision, a bustling gray market has developed.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2018
• Bots can be readily purchased on a gray market of websites.
  — Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
• Even just outside Virginia, in the nation’s capital, the gray market is thriving.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Because of poor distribution and a lack of aid staff, most of the aid in northern Gaza can only be purchased on the gray market at inflated prices.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2024
• Other parts of the country, have experienced a similar gray market emerge like the one in Virginia.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• The old woman prescribed dried rattlesnake rattles, somehow procured in the gray markets where taxes aren’t paid and questions not asked.
  — Mark Davis, ajc, 8 June 2018
• At one point, demand was so high that the gray market was flooded with disinfectants and hygiene products, the kind that would strip your hands of skin along with any bacteria.
  — Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
• Some people have waited hours in lines, crossed state borders for better chances, and delved into an emerging gray market in order to get access to the vaccine.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2021
• Black and gray market sales are available to anyone with an internet connection.
  — Brad Branan, sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
• Law enforcement oversight has slackened for cannabis, which has put entrepreneurs in a position to sell via this gray market — or even the profitable black market across state lines.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2018
• The low sales figures come as the cannabis industry has been complaining about how high taxes and local-government bans are driving consumers to the black and gray markets.
  — Brad Branan, sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
• There is a thriving gray market for the medication, according to state media, which reported that scalpers in Beijing were selling it for up to $7,400 per box.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• The tax incentives have fostered a gray market in buying and then reselling vehicles elsewhere in Europe.
  — Brett Berk, WIRED, 6 July 2019
• Emails showed that Hyman was also aware that there was already a gray market for reselling grams before the launch, although this was prohibited by the agreement investors had signed.
  — Darren Loucaides, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• The danger of those markets merging became obvious in 2014 when a man who professed support for the Islamic State group took hostages in a Sydney cafe armed with a gray market shotgun.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
• Ant was trading at a 50% premium in Hong Kong’s gray market for professional investors.
  — Sofia Horta E Costa, Bloomberg.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• And these are suggested retail prices; a thirsty collector should expect to pay multiples on whiskey’s torrid gray market.
  — Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2021
• Amazon reviews purchased on the gray market or written by generative AI bots?
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• Disorganized rollouts and high taxes can lead to thriving gray markets.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2023
• After New York legalized last year, an unlicensed, gray market emerged in the city while lawmakers set up a framework for legal dispensaries.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Ontario residents spend on online gambling flows to gray market websites.
  — Sandra Mergulhao, Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2020
• But as explained by Bloomberg in December, a semiconductor gray market in China became visible in 2020 due to the global chip shortage.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• Those roadblocks have led to a recreational gray market, where shops sell an unrelated good — a T-shirt, herbal tea, digital art — and offer a small amount of marijuana as a gift with purchase.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024