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How to use distributor in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Distributor means one who or that which distributes. Example: “They buy in coffee beans from a distributor in Carrolton.”

Examples of distributor by meaning

nounOne who or that which distributes.

  • The recall said that the distributors — Walmart, CVS and AACE Pharmaceuticals — will be arranging the return of all the affected products.2024 February 28, Ramishah Maruf, “Popular eye ointments may not be sterile, recall warns”, in CNN

More sentences with distributor

  • They buy in coffee beans from a distributor in Carrolton.From the entry buy in
  • I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and gave me a copystrike.From the entry copystrike
  • I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and copystriked me.From the entry copystrike
  • I asked the distributor about 'em and he started shaking really fast like in a Tool video."2016, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3242: The Dunkelest Brau. From the entry rune
  • Roberson, which for a while had been the only distributor, had run out a few years before.2014, Victoria Finlay, “Mummy Brown: Funeral for Pharaohs”, in The Brilliant History of Color in Art, Los Angeles, Calif.: J. Paul Getty…. From the entry mummy brown
  • The writers and distributors of samizdats were seldom at risk after the death of Stalin.2009, W[illiam] R. Clement, “Culture in Hyperspace: This is Not a Computer Game”, in Quantum Jump: A Survival Guide for the New…. From the entry samizdat
  • Notably, though, for all of the product’s pop-culture spongeworthiness, the new distributor has only modest sales expectations.2009 May 23, Natasha Singer, “Contraceptive Sponge Makes a Return to Pharmacy Shelves”, in New York Times. From the entry spongeworthiness
  • Malware distributors will often use them to try to con you into downloading their crapware.2007, Larry Stevenson, Nancy Altholtz, Rootkits for Dummies, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry crapware
  • Of course, wine is unlikely to be dominated by one producer or one distributor.2003, Wine Enthusiast, volume 16, numbers 2-8, page 122. From the entry Microsoft
  • Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591. From the entry loader
  • In relatively short order, he became one of the leading distributors of nonfiring guns in the world.1993 September, “Cease Firing”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 170, number 9. From the entry nonfiring
  • I ordered Tupperware and had one of her distributors Tupperize our pantry.1990, Emilie Barnes, Things Happen when Women Care, page 220. From the entry Tupperize
  • Thanks to Merle and other local distributors around the country, many stores carry women's music.1984 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Paise For Local Distributors”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4. From the entry mail-order
  • Abandonware is software that is no longer being sold or supported by its author, copyright owner, or licensed distributor.2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry abandonware
  • The crisp notes travel from local dealers to Mexican distributors and float south over the border in a trap car.2012, Ioan Grillo, El Narco: The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels, page 151. From the entry trap car
  • Many uplines convince their distributors to develop an "us vs. them" attitude that is completely unfounded in reality.1998, Charles F. Amick, Network Marketing: How to Play by Your Own Rules and Win, page 48. From the entry up line
  • Temple Press is amongst the leading publishers and distributors of a wide range of radical and occultural material.1992, Small Press Group of Britain, Yearbook, page 195. From the entry occultural
  • I didn't expect to see anything that made sense to me; I don't know a distributor from a water pump.1960, Berry Fleming, The Winter Rider, page 24. From the entry hoodful
  • In preparing for the test, it is only necessary to connect the routiner to a test distributor by operating a key.1955, Telephony. From the entry routiner
  • Donnelly, assistant Federal attorney, as "the chief Buffalo area distributor for a western New York ring which produced counterfeit gasoline coupons."1944 July 23, “Slaying at Buffalo Linked to ‘Gas’ Ring”, in New York Times, page 37. From the entry bumpoff
  • In his own interest the owner of a brand should not allow any distributor to mistrade upon a reputable name.1928, Advertiser's Weekly - Volume 57, Issues 762-774, page 359. From the entry mistrade
  • It acts as a dispirator—a distributor, that is to say—"1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry thingamabob
  • Regioning also protected distributors who licensed titles on a territorial basis and prevented sales in a territory where the distribution rights had not been sold.2008, Paul McDonald, Video and DVD industries, page 99. From the entry regioning
  • Rather than sell the company's products on commission they, like distributors, buy stock from head office and sell it on for profit.1994, Richard Welford, Kate Prescott, European business: an issue-based approach. From the entry sell on
  • The worn-out brushes in a dead starter or a short circuit in a sparkless ignition distributor would eventually be revealed to a mechanic who carefully dug through the clues.2007 January 28, Scott Sturgis, “A Mechanic’s Laptop Makes Manuals All but Obsolete”, in New York Times. From the entry sparkless
  • Here bohemians, students, poets, criminals, passersby, vendors of antiques, black marketeers, samizdat distributors, visitors to Leningrad and disguised KGBists mixed together and minded their own business.2001, Svetlana Boym, “St. Petersburg, the Cosmopolitan Province”, in The Future of Nostalgia, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, part 2…. From the entry KGBist
  • Companies can transport on a nationwide basis but usually only carry their products out and have a deadleg on the return trip, e.g., the sugar distributors.1984, Gavin Grant Maasdorp, Transport Policies and Economic Development in Southern Africa. From the entry deadleg
  • John Willment, a Ford distributor in Middlesex, imported a Holman & Moody-prepared Galaxie and – you may recall – let it loose among the 3.8 Jaguar racing contingent.1963, Car & Driver, volume 9, page 122. From the entry mop up
  • These interests in turn are reputed to be “sewed up” with a few of the large American distributors of codliver products who account for practically the entire output.1927 June 14, “Codliver Oil Responds to Science”, in Drug Markets: The Business Paper of Manufacturers of Pharmaceutical, Proprietary…. From the entry codliver

Meaning of distributor

  1. noun One who or that which distributes.
  2. noun A device that distributes electric current, especially to the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
  3. noun A machine for distributing type.

Full definition of distributor

Questions about distributor in a sentence

How do you use distributor in a sentence?
Distributor is used as a noun. For example: “They buy in coffee beans from a distributor in Carrolton.”
What is a short sentence with distributor?
“It acts as a dispirator—a distributor, that is to say—"”
What does distributor mean?
Distributor means one who or that which distributes.

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