Example sentences for: purchases

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

  • Integration does not arise from hardware or software purchases.

  • The Internet facilitates monstrous purchases.

  • The Internet cheats people of their monstrous purchases.

  • Even though handgun deaths are actually down a bit from the early '90s, says a piece in Sunday's NYT "Week in Review," recent well-publicized shootings tend to stimulate lawful gun purchases for household protection, which may be bad news for those households, since according to one quoted expert, "the odds that a home will be the scene of a homicide are substantially greater if there is a gun in the home."

  • USA Today leads with the Clinton administration's proposal for establishing a nationwide computer system for rapidly tracking the course of infectious diseases like the flu and hepatitis C. The New York Times lead also connects medicine and cyberspace with a report that the rise of Americans' online pharmaceutical purchases via foreign-based Web sites has led to record levels of illegal drug imports, judging from the latest figures on Customs Service seizures of imported drugs in 1999, which ran about 4.5 times higher than 1998.


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