purchased

Example Sentences

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For example, if you had purchased the stock at the close on June 18, 2024, you would have been down 58% at the close on April 4, 2025.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

Out of the properties transacted, 49 were previously in the private rental sector, while 30 were purchased for rental use.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

But customers testified during the trial that the tests they purchased were missing pieces and did not work, according to prosecutors and court records.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

One of Turner’s biggest gambles—and most humbling moments in business—came in the mid-1980s when TBS purchased MGM from controlling owner Kirk Kerkorian.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

She then went over to the cardboard box and took out the ugliest of the clothes that Mrs. Poe had purchased, the outfits the Baudelaire orphans would never wear no matter how desperate they were.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket