Example sentences for: auctioning

How can you use “auctioning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While engaging in his regular drubbing of Bill Clinton, William Safire today along the way actually gives him some very practical advice: under pain of a Senate trial, sign a very tough censure deal, and pay off everybody's legal fees by auctioning off the pen.

  • Bode's implication--and it underlies all the countless portentous references by the press corps to the room's classless guests--was clear: This is political sleaze at its lowest, with Clinton putting a price tag on the presidency and auctioning off our national integrity and memory in the process.

  • A piece reports that workers are auctioning their services on Internet sites such as www.bid4geeks.com.

  • Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.

  • A few years ago, he raised $336,000 by auctioning four of his lesser titles, including Lord of Wimbledon.


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