consigner
Example Sentences
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When we got a new consigner, I was really excited, because I had seen these karate pants before in other fabrications, but I never saw them in this snakeskin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
The consigner we were going to see, Tanya Monaghan, was the mother of one of her children’s school friends.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
“When I spoke with the consigner, he said, ‘What do you think the estimate should be?’ ”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
The consigner of the skeleton has pleaded guilty to helping to smuggle numerous dinosaur remains into the U.S. and is out on $100,000 bail, awaiting sentencing.
From Forbes ● Jun. 5, 2013
Course," Perry Baker drawled, "I sent it to Boston as consigner, myself; so when the chest warn't called for within a reasonable time they shipped it back to me, knowin' I was agent.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.
