Example Sentences

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It had been retailing for less than half of that, at $105,000.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2022

The expurgated details of the scandal she had been retailing to her daughter had included the usual maid.

From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John

Such was the lesson which this fellow had got by rote, and had been retailing to all comers for years.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

Yes, he asked that, and wanted to know if Mrs. Bailey, who had been retailing current gossip, was rightly informed when she said that there was, and that it was going to come off.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

The bar was crowded, and when I entered it was plain that he had been retailing some good jest, for the laughter that followed was long and uproarious.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Boothby, Guy Newell