Auctioneer used in a sentence

Auctioneer in a sentence as a noun

This is just the usual penny auction scam where the auctioneer's confederate places the final bid.

Is your faith that weak that you have to sell it like a used car dealership or auctioneer? Yet, politically, we have rules enshrined that say one cannot hold state offices if one does does not believe in the "1 true god".

An auctioneer would take Google's bids to be crazy or dismissive. You bid the increment, anything else is screwing with others and your shareholders.

However, I don't think the auctioneer is aiming this at journalists. I don't know of any journalists that have a spare 10 million laying around or otherwise have access to 10 million.

If you want the full-service luxury treatment of an established auctioneer like Sotheby's, then you pay their huge fees. If you want the no-questions-asked simplicity of a flea market, then you rent a table and stand in the cold for hours.

Auctioneer in a sentence as a verb

If I were him, I'd probably be contacting Sotheby's or another auctioneer that specializes in high-value goods and seeing about selling off the dataset to the highest bidder. Then these fellows can put their money where their mouth is and show us just how important the preservation of that data is.

The text in the Slate article is "first Nobel laureate in history to [sell the medallion]" while the linked-to article in the Telegraph quotes Christie's auctioneer as "the first Nobel Prize to be sold by a living recipient" so I assume you think the Telegraph is also pedantic for adding the qualifier "living"." Offensive" I contest.

A good pawnbroker/2nd hand dealer/auctioneer will know the price point on a wide range of goods, but allowing people to purchase this information for a reasonable price will help both people starting out, and also professionals stepping outside their bread and butter. I would suggest a freemium model, where the free version gives you a price range, and the pro version gives you a very direct price.

But, according to a 2008 study, almost thirty per cent of jobs now require a license in some state or other, including many—auctioneer, shampooer, home-entertainment installer—where licensing seems totally unnecessary." Big sweeping claim without even referencing the study?