buy for
Example Sentences
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The best time to buy for aggressive rate seekers was when I bonds on the upswing crossed paths with everything else on the downswing.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
Its contracts with customers are “take or pay”—customers must either take all the chemicals they have agreed to buy for a number of years, or pay certain amounts, which stabilizes sales.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
The kind of ingredient you buy for one specific recipe and then keep rediscovering, whether through social media content or “I need to clean out the fridge” panic.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
The home-cooked dinners became workweek to-go meals that friends and their nannies would buy for around $35 apiece.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
She’d bought him inexpensive pots and plates, the kind she used back in Cambridge, as opposed to the gleaming ones from Williams-Sonoma her children buy for her these days as gifts.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
