RETAIL in a Sentence

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For RETAIL, below is one of 38 sentences:
Come and retail the story of Jack's relationship with Mary to my friend here; he wants to hear every detail.

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 Meanings and Examples of RETAIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
retail
 a.  selling of goods to consumers
Classic Sentence:
1  These preparations happily completed, I bought a little dessert in Covent Garden Market, and gave a rather extensive order at a retail wine-merchant's in that vicinity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION
2  Through a cousin who works with Gelder, he found out the retail firms who had bought the busts.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
3  Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
4  Officers woke comrades and retailed the news.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
5  He took her to plays and annoyed her by whispering that God probably didn't approve of such amusements, and to churches and, sotto voce, retailed funny obscenities and then reproved her for laughing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  But it was neither in Elinor's power, nor in her wish, to rouse such feelings in another, by her retailed explanation, as had at first been called forth in herself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
7  Their wholesale price was six shillings, but the retailer would get twelve or more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
8  We have seen both the retailers and also the wholesale manufacturers.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  We should be able to retail most of these products to overseas customers.
2  I'm a relative newcomer to the retail business.
3  Shares in retail businesses were marked up on the news that consumer spending rose last month.
4  Come and retail the story of Jack's relationship with Mary to my friend here; he wants to hear every detail.
5  He made the sweets himself and sold them by retail.
6  Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
7  Savings schemes are the best retail investment products on offer.
8  He regards e-commerce as an indivisible part of modern retail.
9  The retail price of this car is.
10  You can sell it to them at a set wholesale price, allowing them to mark it up for retail.
11  Her father was shot by someone trying to rob his small retail store.
12  He now controls the largest retail development empire in southern California.
13  Lots of closing of retail stores and factories only means more declines in freight demand.
14  It provides a retail directory of bronze fine art galleries and manufactured items.
15  A lot has been said about the massive influence of the US retail group Wal-Mart.