purchases

Example Sentences

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It’s a reputation that some competitors are eager to avoid, particularly when it comes to low-value purchases.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Court documents show that after this £70.89 outlay Murrell made a total of 1,066 purchases using embezzled SNP cash between 2010 and October 2022.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

These may not be major financial acquisitions, given the sheer size of Luckin, but the purchases have “strategic and political signaling value,” he argues.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Murrell also made 79 purchases in the run up to Christmas between 2010 and 2021.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Phineas bought things only on impulse and only when he had the money, and since the two states rarely coincided his purchases were few and strange.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles