How to Use sell-off in a Sentence

sell-off

1 of 2 noun

• Was last week’s sell-off a blip or the start of a trend?
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 25 June 2023
• In the same vein, a miss on expectations could lead to a sell-off.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 July 2023
• The move caused a wider sell-off in stocks and sparked fears that other banks may be at risk of failure.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Worst single-day sell-off in two years Out of the $30 billion in debt Warner Bros.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• The report triggered a massive sell-off in Adani stocks.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023
• In spite of the sell-off, most analysts raised their price targets for the streaming stock.
  — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
• Are any one of these options best able to shield a company’s stock price from a sell-off?
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 5 May 2023
• The fiscal statement, made on Sept. 23, triggered a plunge in the pound and a government bond sell-off.
  — Philip Aldrick, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• Beijing intervened this week to try to reverse the sell-off.
  — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• On the other hand, there was a steep sell-off in consumer staples, real estate, and health care.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Regional banks and those with large uninsured deposits were hardest hit in the sell-off.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• By Thursday morning, SVB shares began to see a massive sell-off.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Those concerns sparked a sell-off last week, leading all three major indexes to break a five-week streak of gains.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• That prompted a flurry of downgrades from analysts that in turn helped spur a steep sell-off in telecom stocks.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 18 July 2023
• The sell-off happened in part because the country woke up to a new banking system and investors had to find the winners and losers, banking experts said.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2023
• Unsurprisingly, this news, along with Musk’s gloomy Cybertruck outlook, has caused a sell-off of Tesla stock in the days since.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2023
• Investors had long feared that possibility, which meant that some of the Fed's more hawkish moves led to stock market sell-offs.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• The allegations triggered a sell-off in Adani stocks, dragging the indices sharply lower.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 29 May 2023
• The news shocked investors, triggering a broad sell-off in China’s property stocks.
  — Laura He, CNN, 10 Oct. 2023
• The token’s 90-day volatility and trade volume remain at multi-year lows after a sharp sell-off last month, per Kaiko.
  — WSJ, 11 Sep. 2023
• His comments prompted a sell-off worth as much as $25 billion in market value in luxury stocks.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
• The news triggered a sell-off in the company’s domestic bonds, with several of them forced to halt trading after falling by more than 20%.
  — Laura He, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
• Yet Quintana required March surgery to repair a lesion on his ribs and did not debut until July 20, one week before the sell-off began.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• Some analysts had predicted a sell-off after the Nvidia announcement, a reaction to just how high its share price has risen.
  — Don Clark, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• But Netflix’s stock has rebounded 36% so far this year as shareholders believe the streaming sell-off may have been overdone.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 2 June 2023
• Louie DiPalma, an analyst with William Blair, said the stock sell-off is likely driven by emotion, and there are several things that could happen to soften the blow.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2023
• Copper prices are starting to stabilize following a sharp sell-off in May, as bright spots in Chinese economic data start to emerge.
  — Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 7 June 2023
• These sell-offs were on the heels of a warning from a European payments company that there would be economic slowdowns in Germany and other core markets.
  — WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• This sparked a sharp sell-off ahead of tomorrow's jobs report, which the Fed has said will be a critical input into its next interest-rate decision.
  — Heard Editors, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
• The gains in recent months owe in part to the poor performance last year, since investors already responded to the grim economic conditions with a sell-off, stock analysts told ABC News.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023

Advertisement

sell off

2 of 2 verb

• The country's bonds sold off, with the yield on the 10-year note rising toward 4.6%.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the other 18 years, the city had to sell off buildings and stuff like that to balance the budget.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
• That year, the bubble began bursting when stocks sold off and IPOs slowed.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The stock is down about 16% this year, mirroring the broader market sell off.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 7 July 2022
• Still, Uber sold off its self-driving unit two years later.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• Huawei’s revenues plunged by nearly a third in 2021, and the company sold off one of its smartphone brands in a bid to stay afloat.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• The data also finds that over the past year, retail investors have sold off over $55.31 billion in stocks.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Kroger declined to specify which stores in Oregon would be sold off to C&S.
  — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• That leaves open the opportunity for the new owners to construct homes to sell off.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
• Both could lead to the same result of forcing Chinese stakeholders to sell off their shares in the company.
  — Jeff Stein, Cat Zakrzewski, Drew Harwell and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Stocks sold off from July through October, as fears built that rates would stay higher for longer.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
• Last week, Kroger also declined to specify which stores in Oregon would be sold off to C&S.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• The company has, since 2021, been selling off its U.S. assets.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
• Last year, Austin sold off a treasure trove of the star’s possessions during a Sotheby’s auction.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
• Half a decade later, and half a decade after the settlers left and the farm shares were sold off, Tugwell penned a preface for Banfield’s account of Casa Grande.
  — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• The firm created the Town of Scotia Company in order to sell off the properties, piece by piece.
  — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
• As a result, many office landlords have slashed rent or sold off properties at a loss.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• The move triggered a stock market sell off and pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to what was then its highest level since November.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• Even farmers who are running out of groundwater may not need to sell off their land in order to restore their aquifers.
  — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
• Nasdaq sold off its stake in the Armenian exchange in 2018.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
• The act required the agency to sell off the crude helium to private vendors and cease operations this year.
  — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2021
• Soon thereafter, the Marquez and Reyes families sold off most of what remained of the rancho, including the cemetery.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• For those who choose to sell off market, the process can take longer — another important point to consider.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• However, by April, once the bank announced that half of its deposits ($100 billion) had exited in less than a month, the bank was shuttered, and pieces sold off.
  — Mark T. Williams, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• The company’s woes later forced it to sell off its budget mobile brand, Honor, leaving it in bad shape.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• His descendants gave up their control of the company in 2010, selling off millions of shares.
  — oregonlive, 26 July 2023
• At some point someone, probably a family member, cut the canvas up and sold off pieces.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Some $200 million worth of machinery bought by state taxpayers has since been sold off or simply scrapped.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• Despite all this negativity, and Deutsche Bank stock selling off as much as -13.94% on Friday, bank stocks have rallied to start the week.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The former company didn’t have much by way of assets to sell off—just its IP and some office equipment, which should be owned by the bankruptcy estate.
  — Jessica Klein, Fortune, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024