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How to use the word second-hand in a Sentence?

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They’re definitely miracles, i had challenging feelings, conflicting feelings, seeing how tiny they were on one hand, feeling the joy of seeing two babies on the second hand. I was thinking, ‘how much pain they are in?’ It was so conflicting. They were so tiny.

Adiah Laelynn Nadarajah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We want to talk to The President and say,' You're the only man in the world who can bring The President home and you can do it today,' what we were told second hand was that there wasn't enough time.

Joey Reed

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What we were told second hand was that there wasn't enough time, i know that every second is planned out for the President every day, but three minutes ? Three or four minutes ? I think he could spare that.

The President

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With the amount of second-hand stock on the market currently extremely limited, house prices could continue to surprise on the upside even after the stamp duty holiday takes a little heat out of demand.

Andrew Wishart

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Perhaps he was a World War Two black market trader or something like that. And that can explain a number of things. For example, why people possibly didn't come forward to identify him. Because, you know, if he's in with a group of people that are doing something a bit dodgy, they wouldn't want any light shone on their activities, for the clothes, perhaps they were second hand, and in those days you tended to clip off the labels because quite often people wrote on those manufacturers' labels in ink to indicate their name or something.

Derek Abbott

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It might look expensive but I bought everything second-hand and made a lot of the props Tony DeMatteo, it's been gathering crowds and everyone just loves it. When people come by they get so excited, it's fun to see how much people enjoy it.

Tony DeMatteo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

For Taiwan, what we want is first-hand information. Any second-hand information slows down any actions we take, and distorts our judgement about the epidemic, like we're unable to see the woods for the trees, but if we can we get first-hand information within the organisation, we can see the whole picture and can react proactively by creating various systems or policies.

Health Minister Chen Shih-chung

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

When Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus comes to whether someone qualifies as a whistleblower, the distinctions being drawn between first - and second-hand knowledge aren't legal ones, senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus's just not part of whistleblower protection law or any agency policy. Complaints based on second-hand information should not be rejected out of hand, but they do require additional leg work to get at the facts and evaluate the claim's credibility.

Chuck Grassley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information.

Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't see what the privilege is here that prevents him from providing information that is lawfully and appropriately subpoenaed by these three different committees, rudy Giuliani and others in support of the President have gone on television day after day after day saying as the thrust of their argument here that the whistleblower relies on hearsay information, second hand information.

Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Our government is prepared to face any inquiry if the same becomes necessary to disabuse the minds of those who rely on or give undue credence to selective, if not biased, second-hand information.

Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It will largely depend on how successful the African governments are in limiting the amounts of second-hand imports and how price-competitive new vehicles can be with their tariffs.

Craig Parker

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You will see lower transactions in the second-hand market ... I think a lot of that is to do with sellers more than buyers. Sellers are actually in some cases more cautious than buyers, which doesn't really impact on new build at all.

Taylor Wimpey

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There is strong pressure on prices across the whole (Falcon) range, this price war comes not only from the (new) market but also second-hand planes.

Chief Executive Eric Trappier

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We have options on A380s ... but we are not going to exercise them because they are too expensive, we see the option of leasing them second hand as an attractive opportunity.

Willie Walsh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think we know well that the A380 market is untested when it comes to second-hand aircraft, what we do know is that the order book of the A380 is weak and ... that some current users wish to sell their existing planes. On top of that situation, where everyone knows that in 2017 or the year after some aircraft are coming back to the market, you have the recipe for a correction in terms of lease pricing.

Bertrand Grabowski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is hope that smoking cessation will help improve asthma symptoms and health care utilization even after any duration or extent of second-hand tobacco exposure, in addition, children learn from parental behavior and they are less likely to start smoking themselves if they do not observe parental tobacco use.

Avni Joshi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are still sorting through a lot of emotions; 24 hours ago we were wrapping people's body parts in bags, so on the one hand (there is) the reality of that ... and on the second hand, we are climbers and this is sort of what we do. And so, does it make sense to continue?

Nick Cienski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
10 years ago

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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