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:

  • (I realize I wrote about the sell-off yesterday instead of Greenspan, which might seem to be discomfiting by my standards, but I've already issued too many hosannas to the Great Alan for another one to be interesting.

  • 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.

  • The result is often a precipitous sell-off.

  • USA Today says the event was "the most widespread reaction to the spreading Southeast Asia currency crisis," but doesn't say a further word explaining that crisis or how it caused the sell-off.

  • One crucial ingredient in all of today's explanations of the sell-off (and we are now entering the putatively substantive part of the column, so watch your heads) was, of course, "interest-rate concerns."


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