retail
noun
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
had retailed
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past perfectof retail.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The family is now down to their last tube and Ms Rabbett has hit out at online sellers charging £30 for a product which had retailed for less than £6.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
However, the cook had given him something else besides an insult—he had retailed gossip which kept the young man's thoughts busy.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
Nothing was talked of that night, between decks, but Harry's story; which had been told by Lieutenant Hardy to the midshipmen, who had retailed it to the petty officers, and it had rapidly spread.
From At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
They had retailed all the ghost stories they had ever heard, and had worked themselves into a thoroughly nervous condition.
From A Fortunate Term by Angela Brazil
The more she thought, however, of the tale which Briggs the postman had retailed to Mrs Forrester, not to speak of Hugh Morice's strange narrative--the more she doubted--the more she had to doubt.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh
