How to Use trading post in a Sentence

trading post

noun

• The French set up a trading post on the coast.
• The town was first established as a trading post.
• The state heritage site, in John Day, was opened as a trading post in the 1865.
  — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
• Through the years, the Desert Inn has been a trading post, gas station, and dance hall.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• Then there were the muted gains in share price made on the first day of trading post-IPO.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 13 Nov. 2019
• His trading post and homestead at the mouth of the river were the seed from which our great city grew.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021
• In the 1870s a Viking trading post was discovered on the Swedish island of Björkö.
  — Caroline Moorehead, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2023
• At Desert View, the trading post, market and gas station are open.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2021
• It is believed to have come from an early trading post there and is around 200 years old.
  — Scott Horner, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
• The slogan comes from the time when there was a trading post in what is now Riverside Park along Highway 51.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2022
• Berenice at the time was an important port and trading post between Egypt and other parts of the world.
  — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
• The burial site was once home to a medieval trading post with Ireland.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2021
• Laying hens come and go from a repurposed school bus and the ranch’s trading post sells fresh eggs.
  — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
• Barbara Burget built a trading post near the White River in an area north of 96th Street.
  — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Jan. 2022
• A century ago, the town that is now Ulaanbaatar was little more than a trading post and a monastery.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 8 July 2018
• A few days later, Mitchell was involved in the robbery of a trading post in the Navajo Nation.
  — Lauren Castle, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2020
• Tourists come to see the old-fashioned facades — a motel, a saloon, a trading post.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• At a trading post, kids and adults bartered for jewelry, stones, glass pipes and Snickers.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
• The royal coach stop was a trading post for goods as well as a place where horses were kept and could be rented or changed out.
  — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• There was already a small stone house there that had served as a trading post early in the 18th century.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2020
• But the building itself is even older and was first built as a log cabin trading post in 1826.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
• False fronts loom: saloon and blacksmith, trading post and bank and hotel.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Mitchell stole the woman's car and later robbed a trading post in Red Valley, Arizona.
  — CBS News, 26 July 2019
• The Vikings had a major trading post called Truso just 30 miles from Biskupiec, the Polish village where the coins were found.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2021
• Historians tell the tale of bandits being hanged near a trading post on the site.
  — Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 30 June 2019
• Gaming the system The Portuguese first came to Macau in 1557 to set up a colonial trading post largely to deal in silks and silver.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
• With the disappearance of the reindeer herds in the 1930s and the subsequent closing of the trading post, the last Eskimos moved out from the Kuzitrin Basin to the coast.
  — Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2021
• In 1875, a trading post and buffalo hunter camp sprang up near Fort Elliott, one of Texas’ last frontier forts.
  — Kristi Eaton, Chron, 12 Nov. 2021
• New York had grown in fits and starts from a 17 th-century Dutch trading post at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan.
  — Nancie Clare, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 Feb. 2018
• There was a school, a trading post and a gas station nearby, but everything else seemed distant.
  — Roman Stubbs, Washington Post, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024