How to Use retail in a Sentence

retail

1 of 3 verb
  • We retail clothing at the best possible prices.
  • Each pint retails for around $5.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Where should retail go in the next 10 years?
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
  • One cake retails for $6 and serves 6.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The shirt will retail for 245 pounds.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The jeans will retail for $299.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That one drug alone retails for as much as $700 a month.
    — Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The shoes retail for around $900.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 24 June 2026
  • The new style retails for $1,195.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Rebel boots retail for $165.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
  • The Brigitte style retails for $295.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
  • The rare bag retails for $40,950.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Some of their Labubu stock retailed for as much as $500 apiece.
    — India Brown, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2025
  • These pouches come in a pack of three, retailing for $3.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2026
  • The garment retails for $895 from the brand.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • The bag retails for up to $300,000.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The chrono retails for $89,773.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The chrono retails for $99,000.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The 100% faux fur piece retails for $950.
    — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The other sweater seems to retail for a similar cost.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The boots retail for $120 and come in bright yellow, lilac, black and olive green.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The chic shoes retail online for $995.
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • These prizes retail for up to $170 as of 2026.
    — Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The style retails for $1,940 from the fashion house.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The jean retails for $268-$320.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The shoes retail for $155 on the Nike website.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The sneakers will retail for $150.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Cook until bean sprouts are wilted, but retail some crunch, about 5 minutes or so.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The smaller size retails for $180.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 May 2026
  • The 40 mm piece retails for $37,400.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025

retail

2 of 3 noun
  • She has a job in retail.
  • That doesn’t quite work in retail.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • His point wasn’t about retail alone.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But these stores do retail tech the Google way.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • The cake weighs in at over two pounds and retails for $19.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Crews were hard at work on mixed-use retail and apartments along a main drag.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • So working retail in a surf shop seemed like a perfect fit.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 21 June 2026
  • One of the highest profile jobs in retail will change hands next year.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • To be fair, Baker has made some good deals in the world of retail.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • For Steelman, retail is in her bones.
    — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Now, some of the biggest names in tech and retail are scrambling to catch up.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The bag alone costs $12,800 at retail.
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 11 Mar. 2026
  • What is the future of multibrand watch retail?
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Full price retail starts at $88 and goes to $298.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
  • The gap between those two groups will determine who owns the next decade of retail.
    — Fayez Mohamood, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • For most high schoolers, their first jobs involve working in fast food or retail.
    — Jack McCullough, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Lyons said store owners had been complaining about the retail for some time.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Exxon is roughly 40% retail owned.
    — James H. Lee, Fortune, 28 May 2026
  • Everyone should be required to work two years in retail.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2026
  • What still isn’t getting a lot better there is travel retail.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Both teams want to have hotels, restaurants and retail around their new arenas.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • Brick-and-mortar retail has had a rough start to 2026.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Roughly 7,000 square feet of retail will be on the ground floor.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Kraus’s office is in a rust-red, two-story retail building a stone’s throw from the beach.
    — Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The gown came courtesy of Raye and retails for a cool $900.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Her jacket, pants, and bag alone cost $6,000 at retail.
    — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Right now, Walmart has it on sale for $400 off retail.
    — PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Right now, Walmart has it on sale for $400 off retail.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The shoes are from the most recent season and retail for $895.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The top and bottom retail for just £20 each — or about $50 for the whole suit.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023

retail

3 of 3 adjective
  • Is that price retail or wholesale?
  • The rest of the space will be retail.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2026
  • The retail rollout will be key.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The planned retail price is $169.
    — Ben Coxworth october 10, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The planned retail price is $799.
    — New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Its retail sector has long since fled to the suburbs.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • And retail flows will play an important role in their growth.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The product is sold both online and in retail stores.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • What is new is that the right has chosen to stage its attacks in retail stores.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • Those items are believed to have been purchased from the retail chain.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The products are not built for buy-and-hold retail investors.
    — Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 19 June 2026
  • Inevitably, these costs are built into the retail price.
    — Rino Ferrarese, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
  • There will also be a retail shop onsite.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Are retail stores open on Juneteenth?
    — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • First hit was the biggest retail shop, Blue Owl.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
  • For retail investors, the most common size is 1 troy ounce.
    — Jessica Walrack, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Oil prices continue to be the main driver of retail pump prices.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Several boxes with dry food were stored on the floor at the retail area.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There were some new finds as well for the retail executive.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The change also comes with clear signs of a retail cultural shift.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026
  • Beyond the restaurant, there will be a retail space for artwork and herbs.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Foundry as a whole has 9,900 square feet of retail space.
    — Scott Turner | , al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Unlike past crashes, there was no retail rush to buy the dip — just silence.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Its due to open this month at the outdoor retail center’s Rodeo food hall.
    — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 23 Mar. 2026
  • There has been a boom in the secondhand retail sector.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But gold has evolved from a steady and low-drama trade to a hot retail investor pick lately.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The space will also feature a retail area for diners to take home pantry items made in-house.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Beijing has even opened the world’s first humanoid robot retail store.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Toy stores once ruled the yule, alongside the hobby and game stores that share the same retail sector.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But the big winner for Ford was its retail EV sales.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025

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