Example sentences for: purchases

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

  • (Those who greet with consternation what might seem to be a publisher's fiddling with counts in dictionaries ought to know that the system for such counting was worked out in the 1930s, mainly between Merriam-Webster and the US Treasury Department, which was then in charge of all government purchases, as a means for assessing the information content of dictionaries being purchased for the government, a responsibility later shifted to another department.)

  • Woks and any other gadgets essential for Chinese cookery make good purchases.

  • Popular purchases include diamonds and freshwater pearls.

  • As a result, when Thais and Malaysians are forced to slash purchases of new cars or investment in earth-moving equipment, Japan feels it long before the United States does.

  • Instead, consider buying everything you want as you go along, using Japan’s remarkably efficient and inexpensive takkyubin courier delivery services (available at the ubiquitous convenience stores) to forward your larger purchases to your hotel, where they will be waiting for you on your return to Tokyo or elsewhere.


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