Examples of auctioneer in a Sentence
The auctioneer started the bidding at $100.
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The auctioneer for the night, Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s Europe chairman, got the room’s attention by double tapping his gavel and highlighting the auction’s top lots.
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George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Correspondent Lee Cowan takes a tour of the auctioneer's 50,000-square-foot warehouse filled with the rare and the ridiculous, and talks with a collector for whom finding their holy grails of fandom can include an actual Holy Grail.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2025
The auctioneer reports that the most expensive item of rookie memorabilia ever sold was a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card that went for $12.6 million in August 2022.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Payton’s got play names that could make an auctioneer blush.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
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George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Correspondent Lee Cowan takes a tour of the auctioneer's 50,000-square-foot warehouse filled with the rare and the ridiculous, and talks with a collector for whom finding their holy grails of fandom can include an actual Holy Grail.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2025
The auctioneer reports that the most expensive item of rookie memorabilia ever sold was a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card that went for $12.6 million in August 2022.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
Payton’s got play names that could make an auctioneer blush.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Auctioneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/auctioneer. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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