Like thrift shop merchandise

Usage examples of secondhand.

Warm as toast in her flannel nightgown in her pretty white-rattan bed beneath the hand-knit quilt Corinne had found in a Chautauqua Falls secondhand shop.

I shopped carefully in secondhand furniture stores and at closeout sales.

The round table set for two was impeccably dressed with old Coalport plates, remnants of a broken-up set found at a secondhand shop, and an age-mellowed Irish lace cloth found in the same place.

Wolf under the eyes of a deskbound rabbit who preferred his adventure safely secondhand.

Even after buying secondhand clothes and mats and other necessities in Okitsu, they could have rented a horse and traveled at least that far tonight.

If I had been born twenty years later or if the cancer had just held out a little while, they would have switched to the nicotineless brands and I would have been able to hear the whole thing myself instead of getting it secondhand from a distant relative.

Even if he went to a secondhand store, the purses would be furbished to look as good as possible.

Secret Service after hearing secondhand reports that it wanted fighters airborne.

The two of them went back to Yanders, relying on his secondhand description of the man his wife had described as the meter man to put together a new likeness.

Just inside the door, an overfilled notice board advertised everything from used chips and bioware to a secondhand tricycle.

With hundreds of secondhand stores and pawnshops in the city, no one threw away clothing unless they had a good reason.

They were sitting in shadows, illuminated only by the secondhand glow of the rangehood and sink lights in the kitchen and by a table lamp in the adjacent family room, but Holly saw him go pale under his tan.

Hooper experienced something he had only seen secondhand on videos or on very big and very teasing projection screensthe wraparounds that could be so vivid.

She had mostly secondhand furniture, an ancient old fridge, mis-matched bookshelves that overflowed with paperbacks and textbooks, and a tiny, aged television that looked as if it didn't get much use.

There is this type of idiot and that type of idiot but their skins are always gray, they have a variety of illnesses, they stand in queues, they take a holiday once a year, they drive small secondhand cars that break down continuously and they buy the expensive rubbish the bounders sell to them, and they pay a lot of tax of course.