How to Use secondhand in a Sentence

secondhand

1 of 3 adjective

• He's always haunting the secondhand shops for bargains.
• Prices in the secondhand market can show the true power of a brand.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
• Along a wall, there was a section for people to pick up secondhand clothes and shoes.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Not everything in your space needs to be unique or secondhand.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2025
• There has been a boom in the secondhand retail sector.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
• Sometimes finding the rare gem at a secondhand store is a matter of good taste.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• This isn't the first time Mill has made the internet wince in secondhand pain.
  — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 21 June 2022
• But that hasn't stopped these products from turning up on the secondhand market.
  — Good Housekeeping, 7 June 2023
• Nowadays, secondhand shopping has taken on a life of its own.
  — Jolene Almendarez cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
• The secondhand fridge had a huge dent in it; the bedrooms were unheated in winter.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
• Grab a few unique items from a thrift store or secondhand shop, and place them in different rooms of your home to see what speaks to you.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2023
• This savvy book is fulled with tips and tricks on navigating the secondhand fashion space.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 30 May 2022
• Most of my Barbie dolls were secondhand, just like most of my clothes and furniture.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• Now, more firms that trade in secondhand stakes of private assets are betting some of those investors will want out.
  — Laura Kreutzer, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• Turns out, Eve-Lily gets many of her statement items from the vintage and secondhand world.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
• One relayed a secondhand story about a library worker who had been followed to her car.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 14 June 2023
• But the secondhand market is growing—and is projected to more than triple within the next decade.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 21 Nov. 2022
• The wonderful thing about London is the secondhand book shops.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Items found in the house were sent to be sold at a secondhand store in Sandstone, Minnesota.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
• In apparel alone, some 10% of the global market will be secondhand by next year.
  — Joshua Kirby, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2023
• The supply chain issues are driving more customers to the secondhand market.
  — Linda Greenstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022
• Here are nine movies about the vicarious thrill of victory and the secondhand agony of defeat.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2023
• More recently, the town was known for its robust trade in secondhand minibuses and as a center for loan-sharking.
  — Gamze Yilmazel, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• As the holidays creep up, some consumers plan to play secondhand Santa.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 16 Oct. 2025
• Alma and Del, who are best friends and cousins, find an old, perhaps magical, tea set in their abuela’s secondhand store.
  — Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• Part of the problem is that the industry is handling secondhand EVs for the first time.
  — Monica Raymunt, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Maybe so—but most brands aren’t selling secondhand merchandise instead of new goods, but rather in addition to them.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 12 June 2023
• The sick passenger was asked to find a change of clothes in her carry-on bag while the rest of the cabin managed their secondhand queasiness.
  — Natalie B. Compton, Andrea Sachs and Heidi Pérez-Moreno, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Gao Jia has run a secondhand furniture and electronics shop in Paibang for eight years.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• The children wore secondhand clothes, often went without shoes and sometimes had no more to eat than one daily meal of bread and a slice of banana.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022

secondhand

2 of 3 adverb

• My mom bought my picture books secondhand, at garage sales.
  — Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
• But if not, you should not have been subjected to listening to theirs — and secondhand, at that.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
• For those who prefer buying trends secondhand, may the vintage suiting odds be ever in your favour.
  — Ebony-Renee Baker, refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2024
• If nothing else, Smith implored his fans to avoid buying tickets secondhand from scalpers.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2023
• Meyers, of Minnesota, is 38-years-old now and still buys most things secondhand.
  — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
• Shopping Spree Everyone who loves to buy things secondhand has a reason for doing so.
  — Elissaveta M. Brandon, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2024
• Our experts also discourage shoppers from buying breast pumps secondhand for this very reason.
  — Jamie Spain and Rachel Rothman, goodhousekeeping.com, 10 June 2023
• Eco-conscious shoppers are showing up in droves, making up a significant portion of consumers who shop secondhand.
  — Ashley Poskin, Martha Stewart, 6 May 2026
• Before then, my knowledge of Nigeria came secondhand—from family, college, and the media.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
• Much of the furniture was found secondhand, from sites like 1stdibs and Chairish, or repurposed from previous tenants.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
• The book itself was eventually lost, and all that survives of it today are about a hundred fragments, which have come down secondhand in the works of other ancient writers.
  — David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
• Here’s how industry experts and fashion-forward shoppers shop secondhand sustainably — and how to find quality pieces that last while looking cool, too.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
• The company’s data shows that just less than half of consumers said personalization and stronger search functions put secondhand and buying new on a level playing field.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 19 Mar. 2025
• McGillis repeated the story secondhand to the Globe tabloid, which ran it as a cover story and left McGillis feeling duped.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
• That section of the site helps users quickly access items that fit emerging trends, in an effort to engage them in purchasing trending items secondhand rather than new via fast-fashion companies.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
• Olivieri's daughter Elena explained that the family would often learn about his accomplishments secondhand through teachers and friends.
  — Katherine Loren, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024
• Because each of them lives in exile, their homeland is accessible only secondhand, through anecdotes and their family’s memories.
  — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
• Veterinarians are unsure if the illness spreads through a dog's direct contact with a sick dog or if the illness can be picked up secondhand, like through an item of clothing that has been in contact with a sick dog.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• Vicarious trauma is the emotional residue left behind from witnessing trauma secondhand, through stories, images or videos.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
• That’s because Truss uses AI to decrease the amount of time needed to classify and identify products being sold secondhand.
  — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• Many of her other memories of Freetown come secondhand from typing up The Taste of Country Cooking.
  — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
• Others shop secondhand to reduce their environmental impact, extending the lifespan of existing items that might otherwise head to the landfill.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2022
• Consider forgoing buying something brand new, and instead, shopping secondhand this holiday season.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025
• Most trustworthy sellers understand that an investment, even secondhand, is worth consideration.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2024
• Indya is currently also exploring buying designer pieces secondhand or discounted as well from shops like The RealReal.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 19 Jan. 2024
• According to figures published by Capital One Shopping, thrift shoppers save an average of $2,071 annually by purchasing items secondhand.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
• The visualization program was built after the major Northeast blackout in August 2003, when emergency operations centers got their information secondhand from a panel of eight television screens—one for each major network.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2011

second hand

3 of 3 noun

• Have someone time you or look at a wall clock with a second hand.
  — Kyle Norman, Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2021
• When it is pushed, the watch stops, and the small second hand jumps to zero.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2022
• Watch faces with second hands lose the quick circler in always-on mode.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2019
• Isabella clapped a second hand over her mouth, then clutched her chest.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• That rotation could also track time, like the second hand of a clock.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2022
• Even second hand car dealers were getting in on the act, although the discounts were not as steep.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• Smaller objects, like the second hand, orbit faster than the bigger ones.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2018
• Likewise, the yellow and black loop on the second hand is a reference to the seats’ pull handles.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 23 July 2021
• The items accepted will be resold as second hand items, and anything that can't be sold will be recycled.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 14 Oct. 2020
• The Thunder, just now needing a second hand to count their losses, can’t act surprised.
  — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• On the bottom half, there’s a 60-second subdial, which takes the place of a second hand.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
• The office deal is the second recent large sublease in a market that’s awash with the second hand business space.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• The palm of the second hand faces inwards, with the magician’s thumb concealed behind fingers.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• Since then, Rasiak has learned a lot, and his leather comes from a local supplier rather than second hand jackets.
  — Alex Martin, The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2022
• Electric cars are more expensive than fossil fuel ones for the time being, and a huge number of car sales are second hand.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2021
• But in some cases, extreme stress experienced by the parents could be passed on to children second hand.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• The focus is on the chronograph functions, with a single second hand at the center and an outer track that marks the seconds.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Apr. 2026
• They were fooled by the French drop about 81 percent of the time, mostly choosing the empty second hand.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• The only moving object in the room was the second hand on the clock by the bed; the only sound, the low hum of the ventilator.
  — Carlos Valdez Lozano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
• So grab the father figure in your life and get ready to either laugh or suffer from second hand embarrassment with some of these jokes.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 9 May 2019
• Lululemon is planting a flag in the re-commerce movement, where second hand items are sold in a section of some of your stores.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 27 May 2022
• Instead, after grabbing a bigger object with one hand, reach your second hand to another spot on its shaft or side and grab on.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2019
• Bits and pieces of evidence combined convinced him the painting was Raphael, finished by a second hand.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2023
• As of this year, Rosebrough says there's no immediate plans for surgery on her second hand as injuries were far more severe.
  — Charlene Santiago, star-telegram, 26 June 2018
• Using a watch with a second hand, a stopwatch or an app on your smartphone, count the number of beats during 15 seconds.
  — Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
• Slits on the band above and below the dial serve as guides to quickly read the compass direction indicated by the second hand.
  — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• The inset second hand is a feature common in watches from the early 1900s.
  — Men's Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• The worlds of fashion and second hand are not separate on the outside, just different on every other level.
  — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• The second hand is ultra-long and ultra-slim, with a slender arrow at the tip that’s reminiscent of an old-school aviation gauge.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• In addition to the stop-second hand, this particular caliber allows for the bonus of the central chronograph minute counter.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2022