How to Use dealing in a Sentence

dealing

noun
  • There were reports of shady dealings between the two sides.
  • He has a reputation for fair dealing.
  • Part of my dealing with it is to talk about it and share it.
    Tanisha Thomas, Billboard, 21 July 2022
  • The area has long been a hot spot for open air drug dealing and drug use.
    Vincent Hill, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Never mind that Getz’s job was to do some of the dealing.
    Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
  • One was about the homicide, and the other was about drug dealing.
    Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The store is across the street from U.N. Plaza, where drug dealing and use are commonplace.
    Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But, all of that wheeling and dealing would be for nothing.
    Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Jack Nunge's dealing with a cut on his face and he's been forced to check out of the game until Xavier can get the bleeding to stop.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The idea that Joe Biden knew nothing about the business dealings is falling apart.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • That, more than all the drug dealing said to take place, is the business world that produces many of these rappers.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • But the document raised new questions about the men’s dealings.
    Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • With all the backroom dealing, McCarthy may secure the job title, but not the job.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the Chargers don’t do a lot of wheeling and dealing, period.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • A lot of world leaders want to have some sort of dealings with Putin, to reach agreements, to conduct some business with him.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Along the way, there was some indication that the F.B.I. was aware of his dealings with the Albanians.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • As for the bankers’ own views of their dealings with Trump, testimony was often oblique.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Dream’s founder, Richard Berlin, declined my requests to comment on the record about his dealings with Madruga.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But phones are also used to carry out drug dealing and other crimes.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The city's Tenderloin neighborhood is rife with open-air drug use and dealing.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 15 June 2023
  • Fakir looked the part of a star but was gracious and down to earth, happy to chat with fans and sign autographs in his day-to-day dealings at grocery stores, banks and the like.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024
  • On top of their real estate dealings, the cast has currently filmed six seasons of the hit show, and a seventh season is on the way.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In 2019, though, the Whitney staff rebelled over the business dealings of trustee Warren Kanders.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The corner of Hyde and Turk, this used to be a notorious area where there was a lot of drug-dealing and drug-using and all kind of things going on there.
    CBS News, 19 June 2022
  • Tinsley is wise to the two-way street connecting drug dealing and hip-hop — each a means of moving up in the world, one much more dangerous than the other.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
  • Last Friday, bank-to-bank dealing in the overnight repurchase agreement market hit a record of more than $900 billion.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Both the victim and the person suspected of killing him were from out of state and believed to be involved in drug dealing, according to the police.
    Michael Corkery Andres Kudacki, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • And Jim Biden has never involved his brother in his business dealings.
    Will Steakin, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The park has been a nexus of drug dealing, out of control parties, unsanctioned boxing matches and violence in the last year.
    Fox News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Currently, the mayor represents the city in all dealings.
    Sommer Brugal, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024

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