retail
noun
the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
were retailing
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past progressiveof retail.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The exclusive 40-ounce bottles were retailing for almost $50.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024
The latter, however, had this advantage, that, whilst they were retailing their wines, no one in the district was allowed to enter into competition with them.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
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 George Barr McCutcheon
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 J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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 Stanley John Weyman
