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Usage examples of vendor.

It was Sandy Wan, the woman who would later help me track down the truth about the abortus vendors.

Using partners and vendors not only allows big pharma to fill in the gaps in its bioinformatics capabilities but also gives it the mobility to adapt new technologies as they come onto the market rather than constantly overhauling its own systems.

These occasions were the great sporting events of the time, attracting crowds of bourgeois spectators from rich merchants to common artisans, mountebanks, food vendors, prostitutes, and pickpockets.

Heavy carts laden with barrels of beer, crates of produce and animals made their way past noisy motorcars and shining black Hansom carriages to the Byward Market where vendors called their wares in French and English.

Both copier technologies required special paper and supplies, creating an aftermarket revenue stream for vendors.

As the vendor was my negro, there could be no doubt as to whom it belonged, and who had been its master of languages.

Although Brennan never took a bribe or emolument from any city worker or vendor, the police commissioner was not above taking advantage of certain perks of his office, such as a city-owned cabin at the city reservoir or a city car.

A place like the Fest might have the atmosphere of a carnival, but the really hard-core vendors were out there, and they knew the value of what they were selling down to the penny.

There was the chug-chug-chug of the fishing fleet just slipping into the bay, gulls thickening like a halo around them, and the one-eyed gaseosa vendor setting up his cart hopefully, unfolding his little deck chair, and then promptly falling asleep.

Morit was constantly outraged and furious at neighbors who used their leaf blowers in the middle of the night, their hordes of barking dogs, revving engines, occasional gunfire, jangly music from street vendors, loud music just when he was trying to get some sleep.

All the Odessa kvass vendors were as spruce and handsome as a picture.

With the possible exception of the kvass vendors, the staff clerks were the most elegant, best-dressed and handsomest fellows in town.

Meals and munchies are rarely served at major crime scenes, except for the occasional Sno-Cone vendor.

Politely shaking my head I pushed past their sudden cries of protest and at the nosh vendor.

The traffic sounds, roar of conversations on the veranda, motor scooters, and vendors hawking everything salable overpowered the band, reducing it to an occasional cymbal-clash, an oompah now and then.