1
: a sale of property to the highest bidder
2
: the act or process of bidding in some card games
Examples of auction in a Sentence
Noun
She bought the desk at an auction.
He made several bids at the auction.
Verb
They auctioned a similar desk last year.
The house was auctioned last week.
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Noun
Christie’s also set new auction highs for Jan van Mieris, Girolamo da Santacroce, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and John Melhuish Strudwick.
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Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
30 June 2026
The original Game of Thrones dragon eggs are up for auction and expected to fetch a hefty price.
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Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 June 2026
Verb
The original three dragon eggs handled by Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen in season 1 of Game of Thrones are currently being auctioned off via Heritage Auctions.
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30 June 2026
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“Auction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auction. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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auction
1 of 2 noun
auc·tion
ˈȯk-shən 
: a sale at which things are sold to those who offer to pay the most
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