Bids

Bids were solicited for the building of the bridge.

We should put out a call for bids.

The corporation invited bids for the construction project.

I suggest that we hold off on making a decision until all bids are in.

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

New ferries for Canada are being built in Poland and Germany after the European contractors undercut the bids offered by three Canadian shipyards.

We're not accepting any more bids.

Did you get lots of bids?

"Then straight Ulysses, 'mid tumultuous cries, / drags Calchas forth, and bids the seer unfold / the dark and doubtful meaning of the skies. / Many e'en then the schemer's crime foretold, / and, silent, saw my destiny unrolled."

"Priam bids the cords unbind, / and thus with friendly words the captive cheers:"