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How to use market in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Market means a gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time. Example: “The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.”

Examples of market by meaning

nounA gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.

  • The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
  • There's a market every Thursday and Saturday in the town square.
  • The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.1949, Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action

nounA relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or...

  • This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
  • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32

nounAny physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.

  • Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.

nounA group of potential or current customers for one's product.

  • We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.
  • Senior citizens are our core market at present, and we can't afford to alienate them as we explore other markets.

nounA geographical area or region where a certain commercial demand exists.

  • Foreign markets were lost as our currency rose versus their valuta.

nounA formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.

  • The stock market ceased to be monopolized by the paper-shuffling national stock exchanges with the advent of Internet markets.
  • As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20
  • Defending the deal, Trump said no US president had ever been as tough on Iran as him, and “there is nothing as smart as the market – and the market loves it”.2026 June 18, Andrew Roth, Patrick Wintour, “Trump signs Iran peace plan, claiming deal averts ‘worldwide depression’”, in The Guardian...

nounThe price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value or worth; market value.

  • Q: What's the market on such a thing, nowadays? A: Oh, no less than forty, I should reckon.

verbTo make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.

  • We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.

More sentences with market

  • You may be able to barter for some of the items you need at the local market.From the entry barter
  • I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm.From the entry fresh
  • My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.From the entry fortune
  • The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.From the entry capital
  • An entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, and amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations.From the entry before
  • The stock market slid yesterday after major stocks released weak quarterly results.From the entry slide
  • The market is flat today as most traders are on holiday.From the entry flat
  • The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.From the entry short
  • I don’t want to be short the market going into the weekend.From the entry short
  • ABC Widgets makes a play in the bicycle market with its bid to take over Acme Sprockets.From the entry play
  • The vendors were hawking their wares from little tables lining either side of the market square.From the entry hawk
  • Gold has gone up with the uncertainty in the world markets.From the entry up
  • We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.From the entry inning
  • The price on the futures market depends in part on the price on the spot market.From the entry spot market
  • We decided to park our money in a safe, stable, low-yield bond fund until market conditions improve.From the entry park
  • The market had a technical rally, due to an oversold condition.From the entry technical
  • The project failed due to the scarce resources in the national market.From the entry scarce
  • He was a financial wizard, capable of predicting the movements of the stock markets.From the entry wizard
  • The market fell this morning but rallied later in the day.From the entry rally
  • Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.From the entry shift
  • The recent rise in the market is due more to multiple expansion than any increase in earnings.From the entry multiple expansion
  • Take any price you can get. We're in a buyer's market right now.From the entry buyer's market
  • Pay any price you have to. We're in a seller's market right now.From the entry seller's market
  • It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.From the entry corner
  • We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.From the entry refined
  • He said he bought it at the markets but I think it fell off a truck.From the entry fall off a truck

Meaning of market

  1. noun A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
  2. noun A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
  3. noun Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.

Full definition of market

Questions about market in a sentence

How do you use market in a sentence?
Market is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.”
What is a short sentence with market?
“We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.”
What does market mean?
Market means a gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: market (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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