How to Use sell in a Sentence
- Only a few stores sell that type of equipment.
- Stock prices are increasing, so now is a good time to sell.
- He buys and remodels houses and then sells them at a profit.
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None of them opened with a plan to sell.
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Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2026
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What was old will be scrapped and sold for parts.
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Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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She wasn’t sold on the framing.
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Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
1 May 2026
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The rest of the world has already been sold.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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Musk has sold investors on hard things in the past.
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Morgan Brennan,harriet Taylor,
CNBC,
12 June 2026
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The other sold for a half-mil-plus as well.
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Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Just four years later, the team was sold once again.
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Garrett Behanna,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Or, jump down to find more best-selling picks on the site.
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Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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As the chef looks to sell the business, now is the time to dine.
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Elazar Sontag,
Washington Post,
2 July 2026
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Don’t wait to shop, since these fast-selling deals won’t last long.
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Better Homes & Gardens,
3 July 2026
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Know her life cold, then earn the right to sell her nothing for a while.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
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The Nuggets would be selling at an all-time low.
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Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
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Gap can’t just sell its clothes at Uniqlo stores.
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Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
8 May 2026
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The way Chalet evolves throughout the day is what sold me.
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Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
3 Oct. 2025
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No more tickets will be sold after those are gone.
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Elijah Westbrook,
CBS News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Yet only a third of the tickets sold.
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Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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There will be games, horseback rides, jumpers and food sold along with a car wash.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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They may yet be sold if the offers are too large to reject.
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Michael Walker,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Bezos was not the first to sell books online.
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Dileep Rao,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Stop waiting for the perfect time to sell.
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Lien De Pau,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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All users can either buy an outcome, or sell it.
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Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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Still not sold on this single-story home?
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Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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Dell was not the first to sell computers.
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Dileep Rao,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Wii Sports is the third-best-selling video game of all time.
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Alexander Kaplan,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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The rarest can sell for millions of dollars.
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Arjun Kharpal,
CNBC,
22 May 2026
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Olson said she isn't sold on the effort.
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Adam Duxter,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Last year alone, more than seven million pairs were sold.
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John Liu,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
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Now, the sell job for the team on the field.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 June 2026
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The stock has 16 holds and three sells.
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Felice Maranz,
Fortune,
9 Dec. 2025
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And losing teams need easy sells.
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Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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And if there’s a sell reflex, sell what?
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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Six have a hold rating, and one deems it a sell.
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Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
26 May 2026
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Still, this one is a tough sell as a major event.
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Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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There’s one team, though, that could be a tougher sell than the others.
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Theo MacKie,
The Arizona Republic,
10 Apr. 2023
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They might get spooked and panic-sell right when things are at their worst.
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Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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That was always going to be a tough sell.
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Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2026
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Barca would keep a 30 per cent sell-on clause.
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Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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But still, $1,100 for that phone is a tough sell.
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ArsTechnica,
27 May 2026
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Frankfurt has long been something of a tough sell.
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Diana Hubbell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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The phone could be a tough sell for other reasons, too.
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Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
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Yet some categories are still a tough sell.
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Melissa Repko,
CNBC,
22 Aug. 2025
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Of course, that's not in itself a sell signal.
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
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Yet any change to the retirement age could be a tough sell.
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Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
15 June 2026
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There is also a sizeable sell-on clause.
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James McNicholas,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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Here’s what sell-side analysts had to say.
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Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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Even for a term made for marketing, that proved to be a tough sell.
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Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Aug. 2023
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But even in their own countries, the message may be a tough sell.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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Again, a warning, not a sell signal.
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
2 June 2026
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To me, that’s always been a core attribute of what helps a film sell.
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Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2023
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For a lot of bourbon drinkers, rye whiskey can sometimes be a tough sell.
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Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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His booth at the fair sells cheesecake in five flavors, none of them fried.
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Sarah Blaskovich,
Dallas News,
9 Aug. 2023
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In the Garden State, that’s a tough sell.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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Just 5% of analysts rate the stock a sell.
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Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
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As for that sell-on clause, QPR won’t sniff at it.
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Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
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That would be a tough sell to many moderate voters.
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Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
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Mann adds that hardcovers are sometimes a tough sell on the floor.
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Adam Messinger,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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Karen Drexler said fall sell-throughs were really good.
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Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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