How to Use sell (someone) on in a Sentence

sell (someone) on

phrasal verb
  • Learn more about how to safely sell on Craigslist here.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 25 Jan. 2021
  • To me, this is the perfect time to sell on both of these defenses.
    Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Fred Bowman, that changed the law and allowed breweries to sell on premise.
    oregonlive, 3 July 2023
  • The water had been drained out with a few puddles at the base; that’s way too far away to bottle up and sell on eBay.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
  • A lot of the vintage dealers also sell on Etsy and eBay.
    Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The Kunkles were able to keep the store afloat with the help of vendors who fronted them products to sell on the promise that they would be paid back.
    Jessica Roy Kristín Braga Wright, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Until more buyers think there is money to be made in mall makeovers, the likes of Westfield have a tough sell on their hands.
    Carol Ryan, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
  • But there are two ways to sell on Amazon, and choosing between them can be a challenge.
    Lesley Hensell, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • That was the hard sell on Tuesday night because the players want -- and need -- to play in front of a home crowd, according to coaches.
    Suzi Parker, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile, standalone Disney+ subscribers in the U.S. will be in for a harder sell on Hulu.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Anyone can sell on Depop, and there's even an option to have the app deal with shipping products out.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The company plans to put that money to, uh, to work acquiring brands that, that sell on Amazon.
    Leila Atassi, cleveland, 22 Apr. 2022
  • What Sells? Or maybe many of the types of movies which now sell on the open market place aren’t always typical festival fare.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The company plans to put that money to work acquiring brands that sell on Amazon.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The Buy with Prime feature, which is now also available to sellers who don’t sell on Amazon, still comes at a price for merchants.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Please note, a valid bank account or debit card within the country of your event is required to sell on the Face Value Exchange.
    Dave Brooks, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Then, it will be rolled out for merchants who don't sell on Amazon or use its delivery services.
    CBS News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • When the packages didn't arrive, Fisher told agents his half-brother suspected him of keeping the auto-sears to sell on his own.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Some items, such as radio equipment and night-vision goggles, are small enough to smuggle in bags or vehicles and sell on the black market.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
  • When demand on the grid rises again, any hydrogen that was stored can be fed through the fuel cell and turned back into electricity to sell on the grid.
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Taking inspiration from Alsace, a white wine region, he was unfazed when warned that sweeter wines would be a hard sell on the West Coast.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week Us, theweek, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Come the midterms and the 2024 election, this would be the kind of leadership that Democrats could sell on the campaign trail, particularly as a contrast to the more radicalized GOP.
    Julian Zelizer, CNN, 29 July 2022
  • And still homes sell on average for 1.7 percent higher than the asking price, another record.
    Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 27 May 2021
  • Plus, Jaen was already eager to show her finds — which otherwise sell on Instagram (@_publicgarden, but soon to be @havenbrookline) and Etsy — in-person.
    Anissa Gardizy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2022
  • The weekly chart for bitcoin is negative, which favors a sell on strength strategy.
    Richard Henry Suttmeier, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • Nike started a pilot program to sell on Amazon starting in 2017 but broke that partnership two years later.
    Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Condition: Homes in poor condition may be difficult to sell on the open housing market.
    Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
  • Magnet fishing kits sell on Amazon (which include a magnet, line and protective gloves) for as little as $25.99.
    Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • But if the Ambler project becomes operational, much of the mountainside would be shorn and scooped out to reach the minerals underneath to sell on the global market.
    Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • As little as five years ago, the most expensive Diablo to sell on online auction house Bring a Trailer went for about a quarter of a million dollars.
    Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024

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