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Synonyms for public sale


Grammar : Noun



Définition of public sale

  • noun auction
Example sentences :
  • Are not the lands open to all, and disposed of at public sale?
  • Extract from : « The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side » by Various
  • At the public sale it might, perhaps, bring a thousand francs.
  • Extract from : « The Crime of the Boulevard » by Jules Claretie
  • The first public sale of lands at Stillwater was Oct. 9, 1849.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Years In The Northwest » by William Henry Carman Folsom
  • At a public sale, there was a book which Lessing was very desirous of possessing.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes » by Various
  • He had her at a disadvantage now, just as she had held him a while ago when she forced on the public sale of the girl Nola.
  • Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • I saw also, in a market-house, a lamentable sight—a public sale of Christians for slaves, both men and women.
  • Extract from : « Early Travels in Palestine » by Arculf et al.
  • An auctioneer is a special kind of agent employed to dispose of goods to the highest bidder at a public sale.
  • Extract from : « Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 3 » by Various
  • One relic of the Tuileries left unharmed found a purchaser in a Roumanian prince, at a public sale held as late as 1889.
  • Extract from : « Royal Palaces and Parks of France » by Milburg Francisco Mansfield
  • Matches and milk are prohibited from public sale, and the latest order prevents the shops from opening.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Mafeking (1900) » by J. Angus Hamilton.
  • Could I get back two or three dollars apiece for this lot, do you think, at public sale?
  • Extract from : « The History of The Hen Fever » by George P. Burnham

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