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Sentence Examples The vehicle was bought second-hand in 1997 by islanders but withdrawn from service three months ago when a door was damaged. Most of us can only vouch for that from second-hand experience but we have no reason to doubt it. And knowledge requires using your mind to think for yourself about things, rather than taking over opinions second-hand without examining them. The news comes from American nurse Linley York and is at least second-hand information. They'd rather get second-hand info about the finances from Wong than have to talk to the lippy accountant. Irish retailers boasted the sale of London patterns and a number offered to buy used lace second-hand. There are loads of ways of selling goods second-hand when otherwise you might throw them away. They can be had in second-hand bookshops for a few pounds, and in charity shops for pennies. As a result, much of the information that the public receives comes from the media, or second-hand information based on media exposure. Mind you that salt should be taken, as second-hand information and college statistics might not be enough. They probably don't even know a second-hand car salesman, as the latest 4x4 would be brand new as would be the cell phone. Although the year 2004 proved to be a cold winter for China's auto industry, the country's second-hand auto market experienced continuing growth. This requires reliance on second-hand information which may not be as accurate. Most of the items are in good enough condition, considering that they are second-hand goods. The first edition had twelve pages, and the incredible figure of 200000 copies rolled off the second-hand presses. The rate applicable to investors in new and second-hand properties has been adjusted. Farms in this country are being sold like second-hand cars at a vehicle auction. She added that further action would be difficult without an official complaint as officers only have second-hand evidence to rely on. What does first-hand experience add, that all available second-hand knowledge cannot supply? My knowledge is largely second-hand, garnered as it was from my view above my grandmother's shop. Show More Sentences Ms Finnegan said another factor underpinning the pace of inflation was the limited stock of second-hand property available for sale. Cllr Johnny O'Malley said the second-hand unit could be accepted as a stop-gap. The home was furnished with second-hand goods and the children had hand-me down clothes although they always had shoes from Clarks. Strangely, the wholesale booksellers who normally stock second-hand copies of the same are falling short to meet students' demand. The blocks on this street between St-Laurent and St-Denis are lined with second-hand stores. Pizza Nonna is next to two second-hand shops but these have not been vandalised. I spot a rather pathetic second-hand shop down the way, and figure I'll try there. Ricky and Fred love their worn-out clothes so much that the girls see no choice but to sell their rags to a local second-hand store. Dealing with that kind of pressure and developing a practical attitude is not something you can get from second-hand experience. Built into the barge's old fuel tank, the green room looked like a furniture display in a second-hand store. Thrift stores include the Salvation Army, flea markets, as well as second-hand stores. I'm looking forward to miles of walking along the water and I love browsing through the second-hand stores and thrift shops in the area. And more and more second-hand stores gather vintage clothing donated to them into a special area. Actual dance costumes, complete with glitter and sequins, often end up in second-hand shops. I wonder if anyone has any experience, personal or second-hand, of the London Library? So I went shopping, but when your destination is the local second-hand shop you can't really call it shopping. There is only one place better than a video shop, and that is a good second-hand bookshop. It's a signal that this region has been supplied with second-hand experiences for too long and that now it should be the first. In second-hand bookshops around Melbourne you can still find copies of his grandfather's sermons. It is the equivalent of late-night pub gossip, with nothing more than second-hand hearsay evidence to back it up. Show More Sentences A poet must experience, rather than simulate reality or rely on second-hand information. Unlike traditional courts, second-hand evidence and hearsay can be admitted as evidence. If your machine was purchased second-hand, this is a good time to get to know your local dealer. He told his donah he knew all the places where they gave the best second-hand clothes in exchange for flowers. But the city does have a few bibliopoles or sellers of rare second-hand books. The WCB regulations on second-hand smoke might well prevent a waiter from serving a customer who is smoking. They confirmed that a man entered the second-hand shop at around 1pm and sprayed an accelerant, believed to be petrol, around before igniting it. Then they went home and played the accursed thing, and second-hand shops nationwide braced themselves for the deluge. They were made from second-hand jute burlap and scraps of fabric pulled from ragbags and storage bins. But if you really must have a ragtop, and your ragtop really must be a prestige badge, then a second-hand Z3 deserves serious examination. For the rare or unusual gift, a trip round the antique or second-hand shops and a little imagination is all you need. Yes, it is possible to buy second-hand records and compact discs, and yes you can save a little money by buying them. But the amount of second-hand evidence, Vieira says, is too great to believe that nothing more solid will show up. Adults can relax at the tea garden, browse through the flea market and buy a few second-hand books. When I was ten, I saved enough money to buy a second-hand book called Tarzan of the Apes. The ground floors are occupied by shops of second-hand dealers, and by iron workers. For warmth she wore some kind of white fur wrap she had found months ago at a second-hand store in New York. The defense objected to the second-hand testimony and the nine-man, seven-woman jury was ushered from the room. Second, in place of the present lifetime licences for second-hand dealers, there will be relicensing and recertificating every 5 years. But he was repelled by the second-hand religiosity of Comte's strange invention. Show More Sentences The school library was replenished every couple of years when boxes of second-hand books collected by students in Ireland arrived. The whole village is gathered in a noisy sports hall, sipping local wines, while listening to a morbid folk song played on a second-hand zither. There are reputable companies which source and resell end-of-life products and second-hand products. If we hoped to blend in with the locals, we would definitely have to get ourselves a couple of tyre levers and second-hand wetsuits. It's easier to borrow the book from a public library or buy it from a second-hand bookshop. The Glasgow-based writer worked for many years as a dealer in second-hand, out-of-print and antiquarian books. In the 21st century we know too much about the risks of smoking, and second-hand smoke, to let the practice continue. But all the electronics machines were second-hand products and have no linkage to the Internet. They'd rather get second-hand info about the finances than have to talk to the lippy accountant. We are the kind of people, he thought, who buy their own furniture and second-hand at that. People with chronic bronchitis should stop smoking and avoid second-hand smoke. The hits people want to hear them play are freely available second-hand, in mail-order collections, and fairly cheaply in record shops. In a bizarre spin-off, the Zambian textile industry has seen a glut of imported second-hand clothes which UK charities cannot sell. Even the account that he gives of his schooldays has an impersonal, second-hand feel to it. Their incorporation into these pedigree herds as suckler dams or resale as in calf cows offers a very lucrative second-hand value. So it's really kind of an assessment of second-hand information, you know? If you're not enlightened, Savemart is this big second-hand barn of a store nestled in the industrial sprawl of northern Te Rapa. I do like second-hand things, but mostly I go for colour and fabric. There are a scattering of IT resellers with second-hand stock. I remember buying second-hand Levis before it was cool to do so. Show More Sentences But I'm always in the market for second-hand copies of software. I have a friend who used to run a second-hand bookshop in the city. Like all the best second-hand record shops, Rob's is a complete mess. Adrian Mole is 35 and works in a second-hand book shop in Leicester. Using a second-hand oil engine and a small dynamo, he lit up the family home with low-power bulbs. In addition, it offers munificent subsidies to the evacuees to pay for affordable second-hand living quarters. Back here at home, I have had to sell this book at my local second-hand booksellers in order to buy a pack of cigarettes. Bibliophiles can always go to some of the older bookstalls specialising in second-hand books just off Brigade Road or on Avenue Road. Sold some books and was ripped off by the unpleasant second-hand bookseller. She spent hours unstitching second-hand clothes sent to them by another brother Richard. Or you could catch the January sale at Esslemont And Macintosh and browse through the second-hand selection at Bon Accord Books on The Spital. The course is based on freeware and shareware software that can be used on second-hand machines. Through donations of second-hand equipment and visits by volunteers, Mr Pun was able to turn his vision of a networked Nepal into reality. Earlier research into the effects of second-hand smoke had focused on non-smokers living with smokers. Is this ban about persuading smokers to quit or protecting non-smokers from second-hand smoke? Despite this, more than 3,000,000 non-smokers are exposed to second-hand smoke at work. Other independent traders who are facing steep rises include Tony Nixon, owner of a second-hand car dealership in Bournemouth, Dorset. Policemen need to be out there checking on pawnbrokers and second-hand dealers, because they know who is fencing the goods. She was almost emaciated-looking and her clothing looked as if it were either second-hand, or else really old. We assume a translation is second-hand and only the original can provide definitive clarification. Show More Sentences Notebook resells second-hand laptops, and any that cannot be sold are stripped for parts. It is long out of print, though easily available on internet second-hand book sites. By the shore there are renowned restaurants, while the street is lined with cheap cafes and second-hand shops. Put all second-hand computer equipment through a wood chipper and pretend it never existed. It was not suggested by the appellants, either in evidence or by submission, that there was any second-hand source of paternoster machines. Dad eventually got me a set of second-hand clubs, and I've been playing ever since. He believes this would persuade many motorists to switch to a second-hand purchase. The first 20 minutes were nasty, with a steady incline in the road and the toxic buildup of second-hand smoke in our lungs from the night before. Some of them even light up on buses where you can't even get away from inhaling their second-hand smoke. He is sporting several days of stubble and a pinstriped second-hand sports jacket over an inside-out T-shirt. The first consignment arrived along with a container-load of second-hand medical equipment also donated by members of overseas Rotary clubs. Exposure to respiratory irritants such as second-hand tobacco smoke, dusts, and fumes should be minimized. She felt like she was getting a thousand diseases just from their second-hand smoke. The government has decreed that importing second-hand cars would damage the local market. Old wardrobes can be bought at second-hand stores and the mirrors cut to size by glaziers. Your family, your children, your pets all might be deleteriously affected by your second-hand smoke. Here the boy acquired a second-hand pair of gloves and led his obscure bush school to a state championship. Apart from the fact that new ones depreciate in value rapidly, second-hand cars are often a lot nicer. They sell second-hand parts either to computer assemblers in the grey market or to buyers directly at the weekly Sunday bazaar. Mr Lewis had owned a second-hand shop in Victoria Road, but in his grief after Terry's death he turned to drink. Show More Sentences The sales director forecast further growth in both transactions and values in second-hand luxury units. So I guess we've all spent a disproportionate amount of time in the three second-hand shops. There are almost 400 deaths a year from the inhalation of second-hand smoke. All of this is being related by me as second-hand knowledge. I had found some of the biographies second-hand over the years. I bought my copy second-hand, from a Trotskyist in her forties. Find one of those lovely old editions second-hand is my advice. Most people get their news about global warming second-hand, but for those who want to keep their own finger on the pulse of the planet, two Web sites merit special interest. I'm very mistrustful about it, because just everyone knows that when you get things second-hand, the problems that there are in the translation are great. The hospitality I received cannot be experienced second-hand. And society has a duty to them, their families and those who breathe in their second-hand smoke, to help them quit. But these ads are focused on the second-hand smoke you might encounter in a public place. Once I got used to the second-hand smoke, Arto made the trip that much more enjoyable. These were all purchased from street barrows when second-hand books were sold at a cost of about sixpence each. If necessary, the murderous self-murderer can even make do without such second-hand justifications altogether. The direction of each transect was randomly chosen using the second-hand on a timepiece. There is a wide range of property available, from small second-hand apartments to top-of-the-range new villas. For Universal to toss it off like another second-hand series ripe for a digital dollar draw is spiteful, to both fans and the inquisitive alike. The shop stocks a selection of second-hand books, bric-a-brac, models, toys, games and a selection of official Yorkshire Air Ambulance souvenirs. Perhaps the second-hand shops of the north-east could reveal hidden treasure for the sharp-eyed landlord? Show More Sentences He died in 1917 from trench fever caught second-hand from an interviewee just back from the front. He pulls back the trouser of his left leg and reveals a shaft of shiny brown plastic with a wooden foot squeezed into a second-hand running shoe. The vast black market in second-hand mobile phones has made the thefts an easy way to make money. Any experienced historian such as Walsh should know that the third-hand writings of second-hand information taken half a century after an event concluded are dubious at best. Go on treasure hunts to places like flea markets, auctions, antique shops, second-hand stores, garage sales, craft sales and church rummage sales. It seems that fashion has become more democratic than ever, with anyone with a good eye and access to a second-hand shop able to hold her own with the ladies who lunch. The challenge of science is to overcome the constraints of our neurological wetware and understand a physical world that we know only second-hand and incompletely. And you thought I was just some bitter provincial pseudo-intellectual getting by on warmed-up Kingsley Amis with the odd dash of second-hand Foucault. In addition to the second-hand traumatization of hearing hour upon hour of human misery, there are expectations that accompany such intimate sharing. It was hard to believe this modest little place was charity shop Barnardo's, once associated with sale of second-hand items to raise funds for waifs and orphans. Many non-smokers suffer from the diseases of active smoking, when they inhale toxic chemicals such as arsenic, benzene and vinyl chloride from second-hand smoke, he said. The answer, then, to keeping our second-hand bookshops in new stock is for our book distributors and publishers to let second-hand book dealers have access to their overstock. Although his clothes were clean and cared-for, they were also clearly second-hand and shabby, and his long feet were bare on the cobbles of the street. How can you argue your right to hand me your second-hand smoke? As a consequence of the approach adopted by insurance companies on the early surrender of endowment policies, a market has developed in second-hand endowment policies. There was a pub and there was this second-hand shop next door. The second-hand bookstalls on the Passeig de Gracia will sell you yellowed copies of Civil War newspapers celebrating exaggerated or imaginary victories over Franco. Bower describes him as the son of a docker, a barrow boy and an aspiring second-hand car dealer, as if these trades alone could be hurled as insults. It is disenchanting to face the reality that these policemen were so interested in hunting down a pair of second-hand pants I purchased at a thrift store abroad. The doctors whispered that it was second-hand smoking, the worst culprit. Show More Sentences Buying second-hand goods and accepting hand-me-downs work for me, too! There is no ventilation system that reduces or eliminates the carcinogenic products of second-hand smoke or the sidestream smoke from cigarette smoking. Many years ago I took out a personal loan to buy a decent second-hand car. My favourite escapes from the shopping craze are Zurich's summer flea markets and second-hand shops. I bought a second-hand car but I don't like the colour, so I'm taking it in for a respray. Philip Henslowe operated as both a theatre manager and a fripper, selling his stock of second-hand clothing to his own theatre. The ostensible purpose of the ban is to protect kids from second-hand smoke. During Sunday's show,presenters drove second-hand cars at a cardboard cut-out of Mr Brunstrom as part of a brake test. It sells them, carries out servicing work, sources new and second-hand parts and is a dab-hand at respraying Figaros pink. Some claim that the style comes second-hand to the guitar from the squeeze-box tradition. It is never worth putting your life at risk for the cost of an electric blanket, and you should never buy one that's second-hand. Post-nasal drip can be caused by colds, allergies, cold temperatures, second-hand smoke, hormonal changes, and structural problems. I could never lower myself enough to buy second-hand clothes. Carpet beetles, second-hand smoke concerns and, especially, bed bugs are a few of the latest hot-button issues in high-end co-op and condo buildings. Badgeless cars are blighting the second-hand market, according to experts. Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race. Workers exposed to second-hand smoke in the North-East are being urged to sign a register so they can make compensation claims if they develop lung cancer. But this will only happen if children's exposure to second-hand smoke does not reduce as a result of a mix of stop smoking interventions and campaigns. Exposure to second-hand smoke is linked to several children's health problems including sudden infant death, middle ear disease, wheezing and asthma. Alert the second-hand trade and publicly checkable stolen goods database. Show More Sentences Welsh dressers can be found in most new and second-hand pine shops. Examples from Classical Literature And several pieces of devotion have been put in, bought on purpose at second-hand. Bed and bedding had gone, piece by piece, to the second-hand dealers of the neighborhood. She is the daughter of a second-hand bookseller called Norman, and I believe he combines selling books with pawnbroking. I am brought to fine uses, to become a botcher of second-hand marriages between Abigails and Andrews! The second-hand book business among the students began from this effort on my part to add to my little pile of cash money. Does not each tick of the second-hand mark the death rattle of thousands of men? I tarried here long enough to smoke one cigarette and pay my devoirs to the noble profession of second-hand bookselling. I do not think they find their way much into the second-hand shops. Your mother's watch, which you had intended to take, had no second-hand. That is why we have no public libraries and no trade in second-hand books. We don't run much into clerks, because there's only one Jaggers, and people won't have him at second-hand. The next day the landlord went to the second-hand shop where he had purchased the futon, and made inquiries. But the junk-dealers, second-hand men, and hand-me-down shop-keepers took in most of the goods. He had had Carlisle's feelings only at second-hand, through a medium perhaps wanting in transparence. Far better than numerous other out-of-print books that bring much higher prices in the second-hand market. You needn't offer me any of your second-hand pabulum, Beatrix. I sold my hard-bought school books for ridiculous sums to second-hand bookmen. His second-hand ideas of authorship were wrong, for here was the proof of it. The teachers got icebox, stove, and piano from a second-hand store. And at Santa Rosa, in a second-hand clothes shop, he sold the suit outright for two dollars and a half. Show More Sentences I took my rent money and bought this topcoat at a second-hand store. Moreover, Fulton Street has admirable second-hand bookshops. Here are dealers in toys, cardboard boxes, second-hand books. Every Monday morning, the dealer in second-hand goods, who lived under the alley-way, spread out his wares on the sidewalk. Catalogues were made out and sent to the various dealers in second-hand books at Tercanbury, Maidstone, and Ashford. Brocklehurst has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand from Mrs. Candelabras are available in the home departments of most large high street shops or you may be able to pick up a vintage one in a second-hand store or at a car boot sale. To have any hope of selling second-hand commemoratives at a profit the dealer must realize that commemoratives cannot be treated the same way we would treat normal used guns. This place, to which only a chosen few were admitted, looked like a chapel and a second-hand shop, so filled was it with devotional and heterogeneous things. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of second-hand? Words that rhyme with second-hand Translations for second-hand Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words secondhand second-half second-guessing second-guesser second-guessed second-guess secondhanded secondhand smoke second helping second home second-in-command seconding