Collocations for "selling"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "selling" in context.
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sell
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- sell a [product, service]
- sell [computers, groceries, real estate]
- sell your [car, home, business]
- sell [used, new] [cars]
- sell all [types, kinds, brands] of
- sell it for [$4, less, more, cheap]
- it sold for [$4]
- [usually, normally, often] sells for [$200]
- sold it for peanuts
- (has) sold [1000] copies
- sold to the highest bidder
- buy and sell
- sell or [share, trade, rent]
- sell to [adults, children]
- sell yourself at [an interview, a pitch, a conference]
- sell yourself short
- sell off [extra stock, last year's styles]
- [didn't want, refused] to sell
- [had, forced] to sell her body
- will be a [hard, simple, tough] sell
- is going to be a [hard] sell
- the [car, tablet, bike, house] was a [hard] sell
- getting [capital, investment, backing] was a [hard] sell
- give it the hard sell
- the [island, gadget, advert] is just a sell
'selling' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
about
- advert
- album
- arcade
- artwork
- baked
- bent
- business
- candy
- captive
- cart
- coke
- consignment
- cost
- counterfeit
- diamond
- dope
- drug
- event
- excited
- expel
- fake
- focused
- fortune
- gig
- hardware
- house
- illegal
- jewel
- merchandise
- mint
- novel
- open
- panic
- pirate
- poppy
- precious
- premium
- recommend
- retail
- romance
- singer
- stall
- stolen
- substance
- survive
- thriller
- top
- tourist
- used