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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

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 Brazil, Angela

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 Day, Holman

"You've spun a jolly queer yarn, Meg," he said, after she had retailed, for the second time, and with evident gusto, the discomfiture of James Walker.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)