Example Sentences

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The woman put out her hand deprecatingly and said, "I am trading for it."

From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon

I hope that nobody will regard it as an invention, or will suppose that I am trading upon their sympathies on false pretences.

From Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie

I am trading in iron, as my father has done, and laying up treasure on earth.

From The First Soprano by Hitchcock, Mary