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Purchase
"Purchase" in a Sentence (31 examples)
We will purchase a new car next week.
I would like to purchase your latest mail order catalogue.
A home is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase so you don't want to make any snap decisions.
I would like to purchase some boots.
To purchase a ticket, you need to enter your personal details.
It was a purchase which he could not possibly afford.
I paid for the purchase in cash.
The purchase is on the company's account.
The purchase brought his bill to 100 dollars.
The millionaire intended to purchase the masterpiece regardless of cost.
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They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
He was pleased with his latest purchase.
[Said by a shopkeeper] I really don't think you can carry any more purchases. You can come again after you sell something, or you can simply discard an item to lighten your load. Or, you might want to sell the things you don't need here!
I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.
Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]
It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
The problem is that the model of individual responsibility assumed by most versions of ethics have little purchase on the behavior of Capital or corporations.
He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
At first, he was climbing down, testing for purchase with his feet. But soon, as the entire section of ground rotated, he was lifted into the air, and up and down flipped around.
The difference […]between the acquisition of an estate by descent and by purchase
to purchase land, to purchase a house
that loves the thing he cannot purchase
They [the English] are all on fire / To purchaſe from the Spaniard. If their Carracks / Come deeply laden, vvee ſhall tugge vvith them / For golden ſpoile.
Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
His faults […] hereditary / Rather than purchased.
to purchase favor with flattery
One poor retiring minute […] / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
to purchase a cannon
1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution.
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