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vend

[vend] / vɛnd /
VERB
sell
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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“Every single day that a vendor can’t vend legally ... that’s my enemy. It keeps me up at night.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 6, 2024

Indigenous hop pickers also took the opportunity to vend their own goods to local Seattleites.

From Seattle Times Sep. 16, 2022

Mr. Rossi said that he argued in court that the state law overruled city regulations and allowed him to vend in areas that would otherwise be off limits.

From New York Times Aug. 28, 2020

With no houses to clean, no motorcycle taxis to drive and no markets to vend their wares, many face eviction and starvation.

From Time Apr. 7, 2020

“I believe that they vend foot- long hot dogs.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Walter vends its own beer, specially brewed for the venue in the village of Gijzegem.

From The Guardian Feb. 27, 2020

The reading matter that he vends is stuff that an easygoing, careless public will not hasten to put aside voluntarily.

From Time Magazine Archive

He vends excellent objects d'art undismayed before gargantuan plutocrats, penetrating their purses vastly, simply with the device of perfumed cigarettes, voluptuous oriental divans, scientific lighting, cutaway coat, and hauteur.

From Time Magazine Archive

The world should be particularly satisfied on this article before he vends his notes; for the discount of thirty per cent. is prodigious, and vastly more than I can conceive it ought to be.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott

October 8th.—Suppose you sent us some of the catalogues of the parties what vends statutes?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

Since moving back to L.A. in 2014, Wang has vended at local farmers markets, hosted Chinese cooking demos at public libraries and helped staff Filipino restaurant Lasita, a crown jewel of Chinatown’s Far East Plaza.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Tokens are required at the bar, annoyingly vended by machines.

From The Guardian Feb. 27, 2020

A snack bar vended an array of imported soft drinks, including a range of Coca-Cola products with Vietnamese packaging.

From New York Times Feb. 14, 2019

In Philadelphia, No. i Guggenheim vended various things, but first began making large profits through shoe-polish and glue.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wares and commodities stowed and vended in those parts were most combustible of any other, as oil, pitch, tar, cordage, hemp, flax, rosin, wax, butter, cheese, wine, brandy, sugar, and such like.

From An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, Sept. 2nd 1666 by Gideon Harvey

One reader uses an insulated lunch bag with reusable ice packs, along with sodas, so she doesn’t have to pay vending machine prices.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

There’s an actual food competition to snag a vending spot at the weekly Wat Thai Buddhist temple food court.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

Glass is seen as the main sticking point because including it makes the scheme significantly more complex and expensive, requiring dedicated collection infrastructure and more costly reverse vending machines.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

The waiting area has a vending machine, water-filling station and bathrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

“I thought you said you could get me anything I wanted out of the vending machine.”

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo




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