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

He demanded that the British merchants in Canton surrender their opium stores, and to back up his ultimatum he laid siege to the traders, who, after six tense weeks, surrendered over 20,000 chests of opium.
3) We'd better move fast before African hunters and meat merchants finish slaughtering the chimps in question.
The merchants of La Rochelle miscalculated and did not counteroffer, infuriating King John, who decided to favor Bordeaux further.
There are outdoor butcher shops, cobblers, dentists, and a shooting gallery, plus merchants selling medicinal herbs, embroidered skullcaps, and tobacco by the pocketful.
But what is even more curious is that they also capitalized the expressions for the three other castes, viz. kshatriya `martial class,' vaisya `farmers and merchants,' and sudra `menials.