sell

verb

ˈsel How to pronounce sell (audio)
Definition of sellnext
as in to market
to offer for sale to the public used to sell groceries in a small neighborhood market

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Recent Examples of sell Delta Air Lines is now selling basic economy-style tickets for its premium cabins on select routes. — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 8 July 2026 MiniSo, a Chinese company that sells everything from household goods to food and beverages, will be moving next to Helzberg at 7220 NW 86th Place this coming September. — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026 It will also be sold on the Complex, MLB and Fanatics e-commerce sites, at the MLB flagship in New York City, and on the Nike site and at its physical stores. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 8 July 2026 The effort culminated in 2024 with a multi-party agreement that allowed the museum to sell the former baggage building to the University of California Regents for use by UC San Diego as an arts campus. — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sell
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sell
  1. market
  2. retail
  3. distribute
  4. merchandise
  5. exchange
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  • Companies marketing 20 insurance plans are asking for rate hikes of 20% or more.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • That approach is what separates the trend from the piles of pet accessories that have always been marketed to owners.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of market
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  • Budget-minded car shoppers can still choose from a number of models that retail for under $30,000 and get cash-saving fuel economy.
    — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Set to retail at $359, this package – also in a Paulownia box – is available at $226.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 July 2026
Definition of retail
Verb
  • The Huntington cultivates them on-site and has distributed many to botanic gardens and zoos across the country.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • The new round of Breakaway and Build OC donations follows an announcement, in September, that the Samueli family would use those then-new programs to distribute about $11 million to 138 local nonprofits.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 10 July 2026
Definition of distribute
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  • For Spisak, the reports weren’t replacing merchandising judgment.
    — Angela Chan-Danisi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Lindsay also discusses the brand’s expansion of IP, including Pablo Sanchez, from video games to merchandise and streaming programming.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of merchandise
Verb
  • An autonomous logistics platform may need to exchange live telemetry between factories, vehicles, weather systems, inventory databases and financial software simultaneously.
    — Ivo Ivanov, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • The lawyers also requested that the state and federal governments preserve all evidence related to use-of-force incidents, including all video footage, incident reports, and messages exchanged among staff during the incident.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
Definition of exchange

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