Examples of auctioneer in a Sentence
The auctioneer started the bidding at $100.
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Helena Newman, auctioneer and chairman of Impressionist and modern art, elegant in a green Victoria Beckham dress, leaned firmly on specialists with indecisive phone bidders.
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026
The podcast will be rooted in Riles’ background as a longtime Hollywood audience warm-up comedian and one of the country’s top benefit auctioneers.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 May 2026
Maria Wittorp, the hotel’s head concierge, said, with the haste of an auctioneer, standing in the lobby, as blazer-wearing staffers whipped by.
—Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Joining Tessicini and Oh-Surh on the fundraiser steering committee were The Heights’ general manager Paul Devine, Julie Stone, Margery Swanson, Bud Taylor (who served as the event’s master of ceremonies and auctioneer), Charmaine Jennings and Olivia Stewart.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026
The podcast will be rooted in Riles’ background as a longtime Hollywood audience warm-up comedian and one of the country’s top benefit auctioneers.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 May 2026
Maria Wittorp, the hotel’s head concierge, said, with the haste of an auctioneer, standing in the lobby, as blazer-wearing staffers whipped by.
—Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Joining Tessicini and Oh-Surh on the fundraiser steering committee were The Heights’ general manager Paul Devine, Julie Stone, Margery Swanson, Bud Taylor (who served as the event’s master of ceremonies and auctioneer), Charmaine Jennings and Olivia Stewart.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026
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“Auctioneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auctioneer. Accessed 28 May. 2026.
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