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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

“Money? No money was stolen. After all, there was no money to steal, for I had not been able to vend even one of these delicacies. He stole the 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

This is the period during which he becomes a willing, almost eager, mark for the decayed sport who purveys bad champagne and vends his own brand of noxious cigarettes.

From The "Goldfish" by Arthur Cheney Train

"You shall not do so, madam," said Janet; "who shall answer that this fellow vends what is wholesome?"

From Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott

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

It is the workhouse where is the forge of deceits and slanders, and other evil speakings; and the tongue is only the outer shop where they are vended, and the lips the door of it.

From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by E. H. (Ezra Hall) Gillett

They include the hassles of fixing a change machine, the reckless drivers he encounters during his pickup-and-delivery service and the endless struggle to find detergent bottles small enough to fit into his vending machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In Nairobi and other major towns, migrants from the region can be found working in barber shops and salons, construction, operating motorbike taxis and street vending, as well as selling clothes, food and household goods.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Also included is a proposal to create special vending zones in L.A.’s vending corridors, although the plan doesn’t outline where such opt-in zones could be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

“God may or may not grant you what you request. Otherwise, it’s not a god. It’s a vending machine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

She shakes her head at me, knowing I’ve been confined to the third floor since I fell asleep by the vending machines over in Building 2 last week and caused a hospital-wide manhunt.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott