Use "secondhand" in a sentence
secondhand example sentences
secondhand
1. To eat flesh is to take vegetable food secondhand from another animal, and here it is interesting to note that man eats mainly the flesh of vegetarian animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, and poultry, deer, and rabbits
2. From chairs, we went to a secondhand sofa
3. "No wonder your streets are overrun by electric chip shops, twenty-four hour snooker emporia and secondhand fruit importers," he says
4. So we first took the ferry to Juneau which is a much bigger city than Sitka in the hope to be able to buy there two secondhand bikes
5. On the day of our departure we pedaled back to the secondhand store, sold our bikes, transferred our luggage from the panniers to the suitcases, and took the bus to the airport
6. Even Christianity -- the best of the religions of the twentieth century -- is not only a religion about Jesus, but it is so largely one which men experience secondhand
7. ‘Found it in the secondhand shop at Newport road
8. That Terence certainly was a cad for attempting such a sordid thing, especially since he knew absolutely nothing of the situation other than that which had been told to him secondhand and late at that
9. directly, “so you only have secondhand accounts of what happened
10. He exhaled the smoke in my face, purposely filling my space with secondhand carbon
11. At the University of Maryland, students in one communication class were compelled to participate in a toy drive where each student was required to donate five new toys (secondhand ones not being good enough) as part of the requirements for the course
12. So if you go through logic or inference you will reach the secondhand
13. She looked around her and saw that his studio apartment was just like an extension of the café—the same polished floorboards and rough white walls, bookshelves filled with secondhand books
14. I wore my Wayfarers, acquired at the tobacco shop on Sheridan Square, and a raincoat I had bought secondhand on the Bowery
15. The shelves of his den were lined with remarkable 78 rpm records and cylinders from 1910 that he had sought out in secondhand stores
16. He came to breakfast in a loosely belted kimono he’d found at a secondhand shop downtown and a pair of bright white briefs
17. I’ve literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better
18. It is essential for every contrarian trader to build his technique upon a body of experience, even if at the beginning of his career it is only secondhand
19. Another strategy is to shop for clothing at secondhand stores
20. It quickly became the most popular secondhand videogame store/historical battlefield in the world
21. It was secondhand, but we still have it
22. Damned Spot was an old-fashioned bookstore, dark, filled with mystery books, secondhand paperbacks, a two-books-for-one section
23. This is uncomfortable to experience firsthand—or even secondhand in a novel we’ve chosen to read
24. The secondhand dealer, who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast developed in her
25. It struck me, if you can’t have any private sense of destiny, immortality, you name it—you could get it secondhand from your brother’s house
26. However, to take the secondhand recollection of someone who was “kind of high” as gospel truth is perhaps not the wisest course of action in matters so historical
27. Still, it’s very interesting that what was once just gossiped about by secondhand sources and then reported by a slew of biographers turns out to actually be material found in the FBI files
28. They turned up a second alleyway and pressed their noses against the dirty glass of an old secondhand bookshop
29. In addition to the poem were two new paintbrushes, a secondhand book on painters, and a lopsided sketch of Will in an artist's beret and smock
30. Laferrière seemed less pretentious and voracious to her, but her wise decision was to buy her fill of what she liked best in the secondhand shops, although her husband swore in dismay that it was corpses’ clothing
