How to Use sell in a Sentence

sell

1 of 2 verb

• Only a few stores sell that type of equipment.
• Stock prices are increasing, so now is a good time to sell.
• He buys and remodels houses and then sells them at a profit.
• Hence, the lender was able to evict you and sell the home.
  — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2023
• Giberson sold the business in the 1980s to Jim and Sharon Brooks.
  — Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 1 June 2023
• Just don’t try to sell him on a David vs. Goliath matchup.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• These products are sold under the brand name Afrin and others.
  — Lucas Berenbrok, Fortune Well, 26 Oct. 2023
• No New York City apartment has ever sold for that much.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• Many grocery stores sell heat-and-serve frozen plantains too.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 25 June 2023
• The lawsuits gave those descendants the choice to either sell their stake in the land or bid for it at auction.
  — Guthrie Scrimgeour, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
• The median price of a home in Fort Worth sold for 3.9% less in November than the year prior.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2024
• This one opens the door to booking and selling tickets if there is enough response.
  — Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
• They’re then plucked from the shallow waters and sold, ripe for dredging in flour and crisping up in the deep fryer.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The piñatas stamps are being sold in booklets of 20 by USPS and can be purchased online or at any postal store across the country.
  — Flor Tolentino, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• The container can be lined with disposable trays that the brand sells for the easiest cleanup.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 1 June 2023
• Ryan sold his two-story house in Trumbull County and moved to a new home in Dublin, a Columbus suburb.
  — cleveland, 19 July 2023
• Fans were selling shirts in his honor and there was poster board where people could write messages about him.
  — Nikstreng, oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
• Kim Kardashian is hardly the first person to wear or sell a bra with faux nipples.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2023
• He was again arrested in 2007 for selling drugs out of his apartment.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2023
• There is no common rule across the United States as to whether alcohol can be sold in grocery stores.
  — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• The cars are being sold as different lots, but that’s not stopping you from bidding on both.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• Some farmers are giving up and trying to sell their equipment.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2024
• His parents found work in factories and small shops, and Martín sold pastries on the street to help bring in extra money.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• It can even be paired with a second mic (sold separately) and can be used in the car via the FM tuner or auxiliary cord.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 13 June 2023
• Since its debut in 2010, the Instant Pot has sold millions of machines and spent years as a must-have kitchen sensation.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 14 June 2023
• The firm eventually was sold to JPMorgan Chase at $2 a share.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• The mall was sold for $85 million earlier this week and is planned to be redeveloped.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2024
• Hall said he was blindsided by Oates’ plan to sell his part of Whole Oates Enterprises.
  — Jonathan Mattise, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
• Younger relatives began to sell their family homes to start anew elsewhere.
  — Alie Skowronski, Miami Herald, 11 May 2024
• Another incentive to sell Paramount: The family’s debt-laden National Amusements has been strapped for cash.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024

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sell

2 of 2 noun

• There’s one team, though, that could be a tougher sell than the others.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• Does that seem to be a tougher sell in this prestige-TV era?
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2023
• That last one, which topped the Hot 100, was a tough sell at rock radio.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
• The sell from Wilcox and the fake from Burrow, cause the linebackers and safeties to step forward.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
• Was the Avengers reference a tough sell to the studio as well?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• But that walk is a tough sell so far for the president.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• To me, that’s always been a core attribute of what helps a film sell.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• Even for a term made for marketing, that proved to be a tough sell.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• His booth at the fair sells cheesecake in five flavors, none of them fried.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
• But there's an even stronger sell: This recipe is equal parts yummy and easy.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• That’s a tougher sell, but Oats is attracting some of the best players in the country.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2023
• The sell here was the location and the packaging, not the living space itself.
  — Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
• And there’s the rub: Where there’s an audience, there’s a market, and the unusual sells.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2023
• And both excel at the art of the sell—themselves and their companies—and the ability to spin the world around their vision of it.
  — Tim Higgins, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2024
• Unlike brands that make pure work boots, a good chunk of the boots that Red Wing sells are purchased for their form over their function.
  — Tony Carrick, Field & Stream, 25 Oct. 2023
• Google supports Windows 11 with passkeys—not Windows 10—which is going to make this a tough sell.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2022
• Yet Hometree’s wider vision could prove a tough sell in a land where native woodlands have been gone for so long.
  — WIRED, 22 July 2023
• Meanwhile, Tencent, Meituan, and Li Ning were small net sells.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Cool sells—weird, outlandish, and outrageous not so much.
  — Carlton Reid, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• The groups’s schedule is intense, a tough sell for police officers who work long hours.
  — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• For much of the past 15 years, steel was a tough sell to investors who had grown jaded over persistent global gluts and cheap imports.
  — Thomas Biesheuvel, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Confused customers believed the e-tron was Q5 sized, making its $72K starting price a tough sell.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Dec. 2022
• But after a tough sell — and thundering cheers from the crowd — Clayton went with his gut feeling and joined Horan’s team.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
• So far, ideas for protecting Miami have been a tough sell.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• Pasolini’s emotional watch is a tough sell but do make the effort.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
• The stock now has 18 buy recommendations versus five holds and no sells.
  — Kurt Schussler, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
• A lot of the objects that Julien’s sells are mass-produced, with little intrinsic value.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• But even those projects — let alone ones that put an infinity hydrotherapy pool on the roof — could be a tough sell.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• An Ed Kowalczyk-free Live, however, was a difficult sell to most fans.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
• The human storylines — something Godzilla flicks sometimes fail to flesh out — would be an easier sell.
  — Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024