were retailing
- past progressive of retail.
Example Sentences
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The exclusive 40-ounce bottles were retailing for almost $50.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
Last year they were retailing “The Devil,” price one penny, and this year they have taken up Town Talk, and an ingenious puzzle, called, “How to find out Lord Beaconsfield.”
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
The women were gossiping about it over their tea, probably, and men were retailing the story in saloons and on sidewalks.
From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod
It was getting so rampant, he complained, that it wasn't safe to cross the street—especially while eggs were retailing at forty-two cents a dozen.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by McCutcheon, George Barr
They were gesticulating, nor was there much doubt, from the laughter with which their tale was received, that they were retailing a joke of signal humour.
From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John
