vend
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“Every single day that a vendor can’t vend legally ... that’s my enemy. It keeps me up at night.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Indigenous hop pickers also took the opportunity to vend their own goods to local Seattleites.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
Mr. Rossi said that he argued in court that the state law overruled city regulations and allowed him to vend in areas that would otherwise be off limits.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2020
With no houses to clean, no motorcycle taxis to drive and no markets to vend their wares, many face eviction and starvation.
From Time ● Apr. 7, 2020
“I believe that they vend foot- long hot dogs.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Walter vends its own beer, specially brewed for the venue in the village of Gijzegem.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2020
The reading matter that he vends is stuff that an easygoing, careless public will not hasten to put aside voluntarily.
From Time Magazine Archive
He vends excellent objects d'art undismayed before gargantuan plutocrats, penetrating their purses vastly, simply with the device of perfumed cigarettes, voluptuous oriental divans, scientific lighting, cutaway coat, and hauteur.
From Time Magazine Archive
The writer or the printer of a philosophical treatise was at this moment looked upon in France much as a magistrate now looks on the wretch who vends infamous prints.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
Ay, and how should he who traffics with his beauty love the purchaser, any more than he who keeps a stall in the market-place and vends to the highest bidder?
From The Symposium by Henry Graham Dakyns
Since moving back to L.A. in 2014, Wang has vended at local farmers markets, hosted Chinese cooking demos at public libraries and helped staff Filipino restaurant Lasita, a crown jewel of Chinatown’s Far East Plaza.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tokens are required at the bar, annoyingly vended by machines.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2020
A snack bar vended an array of imported soft drinks, including a range of Coca-Cola products with Vietnamese packaging.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2019
In Philadelphia, No. i Guggenheim vended various things, but first began making large profits through shoe-polish and glue.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Hot sheep’s feet,” which were cried in the streets in the time of Henry V., are now sold cold as “sheep’s trotters,” and vended at the doors of the lower-priced theatres, music-halls, and public-houses.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
Snap, which unveiled more powerful $2,195 augmented reality glasses this year, sold glasses that record video in bright yellow vending machines in 2016, but the product flopped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In 2005, Green was managing the bus station at the airport and Urmston serviced the vending machines.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
One reader uses an insulated lunch bag with reusable ice packs, along with sodas, so she doesn’t have to pay vending machine prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Digital attacks on physical systems create physical problems,” said Gianni Cuozzo, chief executive of Exein, an Italian startup that embeds security software into microchips used in devices from televisions to vending machines and ventilation systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
I couldn’t wait to make my selections from the vending machine.
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
