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How to use vend in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb, noun

Vend means synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine. Example: “We will carry out a restock of the vending machine every Friday.”

Examples of vend by meaning

verbSynonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.

  • Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • Amazon said over 20,000 small stores have signed on to its Local Shops program over five months to vend basics like household essentials and fresh flowers.2020 October 6, Saritha Rai, “Amazon Launches Month-Long Sale in Battle for Indian Wallets”, in Bloomberg.com

verbTo provide or export functionality, especially from an API.

  • As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects.2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289

nounThe letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at...

  • In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.2005, Diana L. Paxson, Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic, Weiser Books, →ISBN...

More sentences with vend

  • We will carry out a restock of the vending machine every Friday.From the entry restock
  • The vending machine went wrong and dispensed five cans of drink at once.From the entry go wrong
  • The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.From the entry take
  • He purchased a pack of nabs from the vending machine.From the entry nabs
  • “Gachapon” refers both to vending machines and the capsule toys they spit out.2017 August 19, Tim Hornyak, “Gachapon: Tracing the evolution of Japan's colorful toy capsules”, in Japan Times. From the entry gachapon
  • In the next room, a vending machine fanfared a five-note bar.2014, Charles J Harwood, Nora, →ISBN. From the entry fanfare
  • In a very welcome move, ticket vending machines (TVMs) on the route have now added a phrase that explains it well.2022 November 2, Barry Doe, “Better information on ticket machines”, in RAIL, number 969, page 61. From the entry ticket vending machine
  • She can't afford tea out anyway, unless it's gnat's pee in a paper cup from the university vending machine.2012, The OMSCWP, Three Million Stories, page 55. From the entry gnat's pee
  • The court pointed to an earlier ruling in the case of a company that was licensed to operate cigarette vending machines in Provincetown.2024 March 11, Steve LeBlanc, “Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products”, in AP News. From the entry Provincetown
  • Other improvements include a new station forecourt on Love Lane, new cycle parking, improved CCTV and an additional ticket vending machine in the ticket hall.2019 October, “New White Hart Lane station opens”, in Modern Railways, page 23. From the entry forecourt
  • And if you’re looking for something that’s cute, compact, and affordable, you can’t go past the country’s gacha capsule toy vending machines.2018 October 24, Oona McGee, “Pokemon cosplay for cats”, in Japan Today. From the entry gacha
  • Past a bank of vending machines and a skill crane teeming with colorful prizes, I stopped when I reached the end court outside of Macy's.2017 September 7, Matthew Newton, Shopping Mall, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry skill crane
  • There were Mongols hawking sheepskins and Chinese vending calendars and pocket calculators, North Koreans flogging jewelry and Vietnamese mongering shirts and leather jackets.1992 May 11, “(please specify the article title)”, in The New Yorker, volume 68, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry monger
  • It is not clear to all operators of vending machines, though, that their future lies in dispensing meals, rather than snacks or candy.1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry vending machine

Meaning of vend

  1. verb Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
  2. verb To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
  3. noun The act of vending or selling; a sale.

Full definition of vend

Questions about vend in a sentence

How do you use vend in a sentence?
Vend is used as a verb and noun. For example: “We will carry out a restock of the vending machine every Friday.”
What is a short sentence with vend?
“He purchased a pack of nabs from the vending machine.”
What does vend mean?
Vend means synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vend (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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