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"Secondhand" in a Sentence (19 examples)
I came across this book in a secondhand bookstore.
Tom advised him not to buy the secondhand car.
We only have secondhand information of the coup.
As I heard the story secondhand, I can't ascertain the truth of it.
This book is chiefly concerned with the effects of secondhand smoking.
A study reports that 53,000 Americans die each year as a result of secondhand smoke.
We are becoming very aware of the dangers of secondhand smoke.
I found this book by chance in a secondhand bookstore.
I paid double the price for the secondhand book.
I ran across a rare book in a secondhand bookstore.
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In the light of recent history it is somewhat curious that this decisive power of the professional secondhand dealers in ideas should not yet be more generally recognized.
What's love got to do, got to do with it? / What's love but a secondhand emotion?
So nearly every name comes from a second hand source. The exception to this rule has been the vigilantes themselves. Rube Mathis and Jack Wells, both admitted to participating, and Mathis identified his brother.
However, Partridge’s information is second-hand, and requires verification.
The relation of Tristram's death is thus distanced from the narrative to which it belongs, and it is also distanced in that we do not see it happen with our own eyes, but hear of it by a second-hand report which introduces it incidentally, not for its own sake.
exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues
Childrenswear is now the fastest growing sector of secondhand. […] The huge increase in the market for childrenswear shows another way in which older generations are getting into secondhand.
It was almost an article of faith with McEwen never to buy new if he could buy secondhand.
He glanced back at the Jeep, which he'd bought secondhand a dozen years ago and now, fifteen years old, was gaining on "classic" status.
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