garage sale

noun

: a sale of used household or personal articles (such as furniture, tools, or clothing) held on the seller's own premises

Examples of garage sale in a Sentence

prior to the move they held a garage sale to clear out all of their unwanted stuff

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Plot: Homer buys a transporter from a garage sale, using it to fetch beer and go to the bathroom with more efficiency. —

Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024 And when their family needed help scraping together enough money for their second month of rent, the Johnstons hosted a weekend garage sale at their Denver home. —

Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024 In the show’s fourth season, Gretchen Rossi had a garage sale, Keough went shopping with her daughter at H&M (oh, the shame!), and Tamra Judge had to fire her maid. —

Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024 Like most family record collections from those years, ours was diminished by the arrival of CDs, by garage sales and the occasional cull. —

Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for garage sale