Example Sentences

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Louis Pommier, a French chef turned backpacker, was bartering his skill for attendance.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020

In essence, he was bartering for his life.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

By then, the US-led sanctions were in place, and with its banking system frozen Iran was bartering tea from India in exchange for oil.

From Time • Aug. 2, 2013

He was the first reporter to discover that proletarian Mexico was bartering expropriated oil for products from Nazi Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

I did not mention my agreement to my daughter at the time, not wishing it to appear to her that I was bartering her in return for a mere jewel.

From The Green God by Kummer, Frederic Arnold