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How to use the word BOUGHT in a Sentence? Page #13

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Nobody wakes up in the morning wanting to waste food, but it happens in little bits and pieces, we are so price-sensitive in the store, but when we get home and eventually throw out a quarter of the cheese we just bought, we don't realize that's another $1.50.

Dana Gunders

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The AK-47 is just as good, if not better, one problem has long been getting parts, which maybe now would not be an issue. A lot of people have always bought AK-47s just for the history.

Steve Norrris

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

On the other hand, if you have a manufacturer that is sending guns into an area and really knows that those guns are not being used by the people or bought by the people in that area but are being sold to criminals, should we hold that manufacturer liable? Absolutely.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They basically just got it wrong where the risks were, and they bought things that looked cheap but kept getting cheaper.

Jason Kephart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Although trading will likely stay directionless throughout the day, if oil prices gain in Asian trade and U.S. futures rise, Japanese stocks may be bought in the afternoon.

Yutaka Miura

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It makes me very sad that there are a good number of conservative Christians that have bought in to this rhetoric, i think, sadly though, it’s a reaction because of fear rather than responding, as we’re called to respond, in faith as followers of Jesus Christ.

Bryant Wright

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When there's just one force doing an operation it can be corrupted by powerful companies or business owners, but when both the federal and military police are involved, for example, or the navy, it's more difficult for them to get bought off.

Jose Mauricio Padrone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I bought about 12 bicycles and asked some kids, and they said they wanted to be a part of the program and earn some bicycles.

Shawn Walton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There isn't anybody else. Everybody else is bought and paid for, no matter what party.

Sean Hadley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I bought a really good bed, this is a bed that cost about like a Yugo or a Hyundai. It's a pretty expensive bed. It's beautiful. I sleep well.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Those who had bought Nikkei futures on expectations that the index will rise on ECB's easing are looking for the right timing to sell.

Michiro Naito

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I still have deep-seated resentment that she didn't go to somebody, even the police, and say, 'Look, my husband bought a gun, and he said he was going to kill John Lennon.'.

Gloria Chapman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It’s a society that has kind of bought into the Kool-Aid that the more guns there are, the better protected you are.

Dianne Feinstein

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We were early to some of those suburban - I call them inner-ring markets - just outside the CBD, we've been able to harvest some gains recently and exited some properties we bought relatively early in the cycle.

Herb Myers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

2.“Life is like a traffic jam. You’ve got to be patient and wait on till an opportunity comes for you to drive ahead”. 3.“Life is like an onion, the deeper you peel into it the more tears it brings to your eyes”. 4.“Never wait for the best time to do good because good can be done best any time”. 5.“Think creatively, plan minutely and act resolutely and success is sure to come your way”. 6.“All intelligent persons are not successful but all successful people are intelligent”. 7.“Winners are those who act on their dreams but losers are those who dream of their acts”. 8.“Learning to accept defeat is the first step towards victory”. 9.“People who complain about their life are like beggars sitting on a heap of gold”. 10.“Theology is the study of God but not all theologians discover God”. 11. “One who discerns God’s will is treading on the path of salvation”. 12.“Environmental pollution is the most deadly sin because it springs from lack of concern and absence of love for the other”. 13.“Do not be afraid of enemies who criticize you but beware of friends who secretly despise you”. 14.“The difference between a pessimist and an optimist is that the former sees the dusk while the latter sees the dawn”. 15.“Religious fanaticism is the religion of the most irreligious and Godless people”. 16.“He who says only my religion is good, is putting a fence around God’s goodness and is guilty of God manipulation”. 17.“Too much religiosity is bad for the soul as too much food is bad for the body. Religious excessiveness is the breeding ground of fanaticism”. 18.“A religion that does not teach love of neighbour is either a bad religion or no religion at all”. 19.“A community is not an addition of number but a multiplication of love”. 20.“The three most important components of an ideal community are: the head to think and plan, the heart to forgive and love and the hands to serve and care”. 21.“Peace is a rare commodity which can be bought only through love”. 22.“Personal freedom is not a privilege to be misused but a responsibility to be carried out”. 23.“True love starts with perception and ends in compassion”. 24.“A good ship is tested in stormy weather so too true friendship is tested in difficult times”. 25.“Every tree cut down is oxygen lost and life endangered”. 26.“Wars are the darkest spots in human history and the height of human folly”. 27.“There is no greater fool than the one who does not know himself”. 28.“There is no greater folly than the failure to grab opportunities in life”. 29.“An education that does not form the heart leads to deviation of character”. 30.“Education that does not open the mind and heart of a person is a self defeating endeavour”. 31.“Education begins in the womb and ends in the tomb”.

Dr. Barnes Mawrie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Sisal used to be the white gold of Tanzania, in the 60's and 70's our country produced over 200,000 tonnes of sisal, huge employment was provided, then of course synthetics came in, and the prices of Sisal started falling tremendously, so in the late 90's I bought a lot of farms under receivership. And I said: 'look, I mean the price cannot go further down,' so I took a long-term view.

Mohammed Dewji

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Several events came at the right timing, the IPO came as U.S. stocks rallied and China shares also advanced. Cyclical shares are being bought as investors became risk takers.

Yoshihiro Okumura

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The interfering policies of the United States, Europe and other Western nations and their trying to push their own values to change the Middle East have bought long-term turmoil and have been an important inducement to this wave of refugees.

Wu Sike

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At the current price, Poste has a dividend yield of nearly 5 percent. This was one of the reasons why investors bought into the group.

Stefania Godoli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Every computer I've ever bought has been a refurb.

Kyle Wiens

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The bid committee never bribed anyone, i am prepared to say that under oath. We bought no vote.

Fedor Radmann

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I found out there was no secondary market for ambulances, so I bought my first one for $2,500 because that was all I could afford.

Michael Farias

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is a cost in terms of carry, but it gives investors peace of mind, we bought an insurance.

Herman Kamil

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It appears that they simply bought the wrong drug.

Megan McCracken of the UC

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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