second-hand
Example Sentences
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"What matters most for me is the culture change and the change in sort of instinct around second-hand school clothes so that this becomes normal practice."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Thomas Bachellerie, who used to manage a games shop in Lyon, warned that second-hand sales sometimes made up almost a third of stores' turnover -- a problem since digital games "cannot be resold or lent".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
If a disc is sold second-hand, the digital rights would transfer over to the new owner.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
A woman who bought what she thought was a genuine Prada handbag second-hand on Vinted for £400 later discovered it was a fake.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
At the start, we kept going into the wrong sort of places: second-hand bookshops, or shops full of old vacuum cleaners, but no music at all.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
