peddling in English

verb
1
try to sell (something, especially small goods) by going from house to house or place to place.
he peddled art and printing materials around the country
synonyms:sellsell from door to doorhawktoutvendtrade (in)deal intraffic in

Use "peddling" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "peddling" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "peddling", or refer to the context using the word "peddling" in the English Dictionary.

1. You don't pay for a boat by peddling seaweed.

2. You're going to end up peddling gas for a thumbnail of cocaine.

3. Three cabinet members tainted with influence-peddling had to go.

4. We can't have you peddling your wares to the Chinese.

5. With drug - peddling margins so tight, the gangs are looking to other revenue sources.

6. It is just as likely that he was a charlatan peddling hocus - pocus.

7. 16 He worked as a door-to-door salesman peddling cloths and brushes.

8. 16 People have been peddling phony weight-loss elixirs since before the turn of the century.

9. 5 Gambling, prostitution, thievery, and drug peddling became respected occupations,[www.Sentencedict.com] corrupting the next generation in childhood.

10. These vendors know, they cheat on tribute, they end up peddling outside the wall.

11. The film does have one serendipitous subplot: the peddling of offshore oil-drilling leases.

12. If you stop peddling your bike on a hill, you’ll start rolling Backward. If you count Backward …

13. Aggrandizements in the millions — you and Hunter — from Ukrainian Burisma et al, interest peddling of state actor influence

14. Forms of Corruption vary, but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement.

15. The men of peddling the word for profit" in another version of Bible described as "huckster.

16. The New York Times reports: “Many homeless teen-agers simply live on the streets, becoming prostitutes or peddling drugs to survive.”

17. A Cyclist has sparked outrage in Belgium after using his knee to knock over a child that was blocking his way before peddling off

18. Robert Lanza and Deepak Chopra (just the fact that he is associated with it should discredit it right there) have been peddling this bizarre notion of Biocentrism, …

19. It cannot be established that there was an intention to obtain a profit —either for himself or for the account of Jehovah’s witnesses— by means of peddling.

20. President Donald Trump has turned to a fringe group of Advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics to overturn the results of the election, creating a dire situation that multiple senior

21. In my heart of hearts I realised that this had been the place, but still spent the next couple of hours peddling around on the off-chance that I was mistaken.

22. Clientelism, argue the authors, saturates the political system, and in Democracy for Sale they reveal the everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and skimming money from government projects

23. An embodiment or manifestation, as of a quality or concept: "Reagan was at his strongest as the Avatar of American consensus, peddling a sunny normalcy, a happy-go-lucky and ultimately accommodating attitude" (Gil Troy).

24. ‘They are classified in the same genealogical family as the toucanet - a smaller version of the toucan - and the Aracari - which has a differently shaped beak, and is smaller than the toucan.’ ‘The seller in the photo is peddling collared Aracaris to passersby.’

25. ‘They are classified in the same genealogical family as the toucanet - a smaller version of the toucan - and the Aracari - which has a differently shaped beak, and is smaller than the toucan.’ ‘The seller in the photo is peddling collared Aracaris to passersby.’