Example sentences for: buys

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

  • Indeed, it would likely be hard to find even a White House aide who, in the privacy of his/her home, would tell a spouse that he/she buys Clinton's story.

  • As incomes rise, the young farmer buys a truck to replace his father’s trusty donkey, or he gives up farming altogether to open a bar or car-rental office.

  • The Democrats' big TV buys also increased their appetite for hard money: DNC rules require that part of each issue ad be paid for with hard money.

  • A great many words in Quechua begin with hua- or gua- (used interchangeably), so when the hacienda owner tells his Indian quachimán to keep a sharp lookout on his nightly rounds, neither may realize that the word derives from watchman . And when Mami is persuaded that daughter needs a new sweater and buys her a chompa , neither may think of the long departed Englishwomen whose jumpers brought the word into the language.

  • A rich woman who buys rounds of drinks is known as a mangizlika , from the Romany word mangis hard cash.


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