sold
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Explanation
Something that's sold has been exchanged for money. When new neighbors buy the house across the street, you'll see a sign appear in its front yard that says "Sold." Once you sell something, you can describe it as sold, whether it's a sold item at your yard sale, waiting beside the driveway for its buyer to pick it up, or the sold trees at the Christmas tree farm, marked with colored tape. The word sold comes from sell and its root meaning of "offer up or deliver." Offer up the highest bid on a painting at an auction and you'll hear the auctioneer call out, "Sold!"
Example Sentences
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It’s the same language Maddie sold to Deena, but a view Dr. Kronenfield won’t buy.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Ford sold more than 122,000 Mustangs in the U.S. in 2015, versus about 45,000 last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Walker said tickets still being sold for Thirty Seconds to Mars' upcoming concerts at London's The O2 and Manchester Co-Op Live was "really worrying".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Snap, which unveiled more powerful $2,195 augmented reality glasses this year, sold glasses that record video in bright yellow vending machines in 2016, but the product flopped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Sixteen floors above him inside Deutsche Bank’s Wall Street headquarters, several hundred highly paid employees bought subprime mortgage loans, packaged them into bonds, and sold them off.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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