How to Use sell short in a Sentence

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• Bessent set up a program to sell short-term (lower rate) Treasury bills and notes and buy back long-term bonds, hoping to temper rates.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
• Every investment must remain attractive from today’s price, not from the price at which it was originally purchased or sold short.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
• About 17% of shares available for trading were sold short heading into the earnings results, according to FactSet.
  — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
• The firm estimates that investors have sold short roughly $879 million worth of DraftKings stock, a sign that many are still positioning for further declines.
  — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
• As many as 23 million of the company’s American depositary receipts are now sold short, according to S3 Partners.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 29 July 2026
• About 185 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, representing roughly 29% of the company’s publicly tradable float and about $25 billion in bearish wagers, according to S3 Partners.
  — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 July 2026
• About 185 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, representing roughly 29% of the company's publicly tradable float and about $25 billion in bearish wagers, according to S3 Partners.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 16 July 2026
• About 206 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, representing roughly 32% of the company's publicly tradable float and about $25 billion in notional bearish bets, according to estimates from S3 Partners.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 21 July 2026
• In the second case, as a part of its QE strategy, the FOMC decided in September 2011 to extend the average maturity of the Fed’s portfolio by selling short-term and purchasing longer-term Treasury securities.
  — Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026