Example sentences for: sell-off

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

  • But one of the odd things about this most recent sell-off is that, with the exception of banks (which are always hit hard by interest-rate worries), the hardest-hit companies were those companies whose profit prospects will be the least hurt by a fed-funds hike.

  • The Hong Kong sell-off leads all around.

  • IBM's stock price bumped up a little bit on Friday, but stayed steady today, which suggests that Thursday's sell-off was not some massive overreaction.

  • On the contrary, thanks to the spread of the Internet and the rise to prominence of CNNfn and, above all, CNBC, the sell-off occurs with real-time commentary, real-time commentary that is already, almost before the fact, labeling what's occurring as "a sell-off," a "prelude to a correction," or "the first prick of the tech-stock bubble."

  • The second is that when something like today's sell-off happens, it makes obvious the extent to which, in the short term, you can no longer separate the event from the media's coverage of the event.


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