Words similar to bidding

Example sentences for: bidding

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

He had claimed to be interested in bidding for Thomson, but Kleinwort Benson, the company's merchant bank, told him out of courtesy that the company had accepted another offer.
At his bidding, French buccaneers and adventurers, some of them noblemen, started planting the flag on Caribbean real estate in 1625.
Competitive bidding also became easier with a reputation to back up his grant proposals, and Dudovitz soon was raising enough to develop slick promotional materials and to share funds with other public interest programs to cement collaborative efforts on health care, policy advocacy, homelessness, domestic-violence assistance, self-help and technology development.
The Star Wars toy contracts were scheduled to expire next year, which sparked a bidding war this fall.
This expression was a staple of business thinking in the '80s, and was epitomized by the experience of RJR Nabisco, which became the subject of a huge bidding war after its management tried to take the company private in a leveraged buyout.