verb · neutral
sell
/sel/SELL
Band 4-5speakingtask2
to give something to someone in exchange for money
Examples
“I sold my old laptop last month.”
“She sells handmade bags at the weekend market.”
“They sell out of the new phone model within hours.”
Band 8 sentence
“I sold most of my old textbooks online and made enough money to buy the new editions.”
Collocations
- sell something to someone
- sell out
- be sold at (a price)
Word family
sell verbsold verb (past)seller nounselling noun / verb-ing
Common mistakes
I sell my phone yesterday.→I sold my phone yesterday.
He sell to me last week.→He sold it to me last week.
Say it for a higher band
5give→6trade→7+sell
Synonyms
vend
trade
Easily confused
give
“He gave his old clothes to charity.”
trade
“They traded books with each other.”
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In Shopping & Money
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