personal ad

Example Sentences

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"All my hopes and dreams, my old report cards, every breed of dog, every last personal ad on Craigslist, sesame, poppy seed, salt, and it collapsed in on itself," she explains.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023

So a friend urged him to place a personal ad in the Advocate, a gay magazine.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022

Once the money had been gathered, George’s father was instructed to run a personal ad in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that read, “We are ready. Percy Minnie.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2022

She moved to Canada, and in 1974 placed a personal ad in Mother Earth News, then a new journal of self-sufficiency.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

First, I needed to know how many people might have seen the personal ad and how many might match it.

From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2018