How to Use sales in a Sentence

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• Which doesn’t mean the end result has to be sales or market share.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2011
• The state would also waive sales taxes on any equipment upgrades at the plant.
  — Jason Stein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, the cost totals for each store don’t include sales tax.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 24 July 2017
• Keith Cyphers — whose sales office is across the hall from the Gazette’s — recalled the Thursday shooting scene.
  — Washington Post, 29 June 2018
• Create online wish lists of favorite items, and sign up for the retailer’s email blasts to get sales alerts.
  — Debbie Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Many third-party merchants who use the service to sell their own goods on Amazon's sites still do not charge sales tax.
  — Michael D. Shear, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2018
• The state doesn't charge sales tax on CrossFit businesses, but Glendale does.
  — Russ Wiles, azcentral, 13 June 2019
• And in most states Amazon does not collect sales taxes on sales of goods sold by third parties on its platform.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Staff from an onsite sales office will be available to assist them.
  — courant.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• His business will have to levy sales tax on labor under the new regulations.
  — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2018
• While Victoria’s Secret has made some moves to change its marketing, the efforts haven’t been enough to stop sales declines.
  — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
• This week the Supreme Court is considering a case that could end for good a precedent that allows online retailers to not charge sales tax.
  — Hallie Detrick, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2018
• To sustain the current share price, though, the brand needs to dramatically improve sales growth or else succumb to a takeover offer.
  — Carol Ryan, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• Last month, Wells Fargo agreed to pay $3 billion to settle claims related to its creation of millions of fake accounts to meet sales goals.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 10 Mar. 2020
• These days, the pre-sales market has contracted for all but a top echelon of big plays by big companies or star auteurs.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 4 Dec. 2021
• Compared to a control group who did not receive mentorship, the mentored sales agents outperformed the other group by over 18% in their first six months.
  — Jackie Bischof, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
• No, not the 5-4 ruling allowing states to require sales tax collection from e-commerce sites in the South Dakota v. Wayfair case.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 25 June 2018
• Many small businesses selling products on Amazon’s site don’t collect sales taxes outside of the states where they are based.
  — Peter Nicholas, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• The expansion bodes well for the company’s efforts to meet sales demand for the device during the holiday shopping season, one of the people said.
  — Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
• Lazenby traced Blaine’s revenue windfall to a sales tax agreement that was put in place in the mid-2000s which allowed states to levy sales taxes based on where a package was delivered, rather than where it was sold.
  — Alexandra Samuel, The Verge, 20 June 2018
• Loewenstine said the bottom line is P&G investors want to see sales growth again and any other announcement by the company will be seen as a gimmick to distract them.
  — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2017
• Pre-sales start on Nov. 8 and run through Thursday, Nov. 10, according to Ticketmaster.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 3 Nov. 2022
• The Supreme Court next month will hear arguments on whether states can require sales-tax collection from out-of-state retailers selling into their states.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2018
• My team is unique, with both our post-sales businesses and partners laddering up together.
  — Lara Caimi, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• Consequently, many bankers on the front lines were inexperienced and had less incentive to uphold the bank’s values than to meet sales goals.
  — Jennifer A. Kingson and Stacy Cowley, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• The international pre-sales market has declined, as the streamers have arrived.
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
• Advocates in recent years have pushed for states to eliminate sales taxes on women’s products.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• Because states can't collect sales taxes from out of state retailers, in recent years, with the rise of online shopping, South Dakota has seen its revenues plummet.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Plans are in the early stages, but broad outlines of the idea would have Kansas City voters in November deciding whether to increase sales taxes by ⅜-ths of a cent, enough to generate $30 million a year.
  — Steve Vockrodt, Mara Rose Williams and Katy Bergen, kansascity, 11 June 2018
• Ads carry within them a mini-sales pitch that is both attractive and informative to viewers.
  — Blair Currie, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024