The public sale of something to the highest bidder.
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Examples for "auction "
Examples for "auction "
1 Germany saw subdued demand at its first auction of the year yesterday.
2 Dairy farmers also received better news, with auction prices slightly up overnight.
3 As a result, the authorities are opting to auction new licenses first.
4 Drew said, You're welcome to come to the jewelry auction , of course.
5 About five years ago, they held a Christmas auction to raise money.
1 A vendue was called, and three thousand dollars in cash realized.
2 Dr. Johnson, at the brewer's vendue , could not have been more learnedly sonorous.
3 Even while the grand vendue was still in progress the duchess died of grief.
4 The term in use for an auction then was vendue .
5 The contracts for building were let out at vendue to the lowest bidder.]
1 At an order from the praefect the auction sale was abruptly suspended.
2 Abraham Lincoln witnessed an auction sale of slaves in his younger days.
3 I don't know whether it was a auction sale or a private sale.
4 The auction sale of these goods was largely attended.
5 A successful auctioneer-Playinga double role-Illustratingan auction sale .
6 Town & Country attracted a full house for its auction sale on the premises last Sunday.
7 Various significant artworks the Aspire Exhibition's forthcoming Johannesburg auction sale in November will also be displayed.
8 The auction sale was broadcast over station WOR.
9 Another month had passed since the auction sale .
10 Years ago I went to an auction sale .
11 The third member of the pack-outfit we bought at an auction sale in rather a peculiar manner.
12 The Chapmans did not buy the house, but the Manor House School did at the subsequent auction sale .
13 Tells anecdotes about the auction sale .
14 How much would you give, in the open market, or at an auction sale , for a second-hand fish-line?
15 A typical example of a successful auction sale , perhaps, but no less exciting - or nerve-wracking - for it.
16 From her note I learned that this was the day for the auction sale of the asylum personal property.
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