Example sentences for: secondhand

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

  • District Court Judge Thomas Osteen, who issued the secondhand smoke ruling covered in the WP , says that the EPA "did not demonstrate a statistically significant association between [secondhand smoke] and lung cancer."

  • Now I worry a little about my car, a splendid secondhand Toyota Camry .

  • (I am sure, however, that there are many in the anti-tobacco movement who would be prepared to ban smoking because of the possibility of lung damage from secondhand smoke--now that would be trying to create a childproof world.)

  • A change in the concept of art in the 20 th century made it possible for Cornell to become an artist directly, using his eccentric peregrinations in secondhand shops and the feelings that provoked them as the only preparation he needed.

  • Looking again at the poetry written between 1889 and 1914, one notices the scattered petals of familiar flowers, the secondhand imagery, the automatic despondency (far too much "ancient sorrow"), the druids, fairies, hermits, and witches.


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