How to Use wholesale in a Sentence

wholesale

1 of 3 noun
Definition of wholesalenext
Synonyms for wholesalenext
  • Dogwood has three retail shops in the Twin Cities, but the wholesale of its beans is what has helped the business grow.
    — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • In the nineteen-tens, entire towns in the path of the Ashokan relocated wholesale.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Some buyers said boxes have climbed up to $60 a box wholesale.
    — Ellie Stevens, CNN, 15 July 2023
  • Jokr buys their groceries at wholesale and then sells the products at a higher price.
    — Brittain Ladd, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Eng sells soy milk and tofu wholesale to a handful of restaurants.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The same tire that Berberian had sold him six months earlier had risen in price from $65 to $85 wholesale.
    — Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2021
  • A year ago, a cultivator could get about $1,000 a pound wholesale.
    — Michael R. Blood, chicagotribune.com, 16 Jan. 2022
  • At the end of last year, a trafficker could buy a pound at wholesale from a cartel associate for $900.
    — Beth Warren and Karol Suarez, USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
  • Kupchak has said repeatedly since taking the job in April that the intent is not to blow up the roster wholesale.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 22 June 2018
  • Golden Scoop hopes to open another shop and a plant making ice cream to sell wholesale.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Hustling for cash, for love, for good times, for protein powder at wholesale.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • So Cotopaxi made the leap into wholesale, starting with an REI partnership at the end of 2017.
    — Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Their frozen wholesale pierogies will soon reach even more people.
    — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • After a back-and-forth in the state Capitol about the size of the new tax, a 35% rate of wholesale was set in the bill, which is less than half the state tax rate of other tobacco products.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Carlson is the retail version of a worldview that can be purchased at wholesale.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
  • While routes may not change wholesale across the city, the way bus service operates needs an overhaul, Walker said.
    — Jason Laughlin, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • Alexander is working on going wholesale and hopes to sell her products in stores.
    — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The national average egg price per dozen wholesale is now $3.30, the USDA said last week.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The couple make chocolate sold wholesale, online, and at a store in Wayland that will open in September.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
  • So far, this wholesale-forward strategy has paid off, not just on sales growth but also on the bottom line.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Money raised will be used to buy 150 frozen turkeys at wholesale for families to pick up the week of Thanksgiving.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The unlucky star happens to be situated near enough to the black hole to begin losing matter to it, but not near enough to fall in wholesale.
    — Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
  • Ethel’s website, helps with accounting and wholesale and works the farmers market stands.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Our wholesale was still doing something, people were still buying beer to drink at home, that at least kept us hopeful.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Before the pandemic, Foxhollow Farm's sales were split about 60% to consumers and 40% to wholesale.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2021
  • And some decision had to be made on my end about expanding into wholesale.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • By offering less stuff at wholesale, brands can also hit the sweet spot for their business — high demand and tight supply.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Curtis didn’t dream up Yesterday wholesale; the germ of the concept was writer and producer Jack Barth’s.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 9 May 2019
  • This is San Diego’s premier wholesale and retail seafood market.
    — Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Unlike the industrial sector, farmers are unable to set retail prices for their produce and have to sell their crops in bulk at wholesale after harvest, which drives down prices for them across the board.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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wholesale

2 of 3 adjective
  • Is that price retail or wholesale?
  • The crops originated from wholesale growers.
  • Maidens of the county would have to sprint to the alter in wholesale lots to beat last year's record.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • One way to measure that would be to look at the difference between the wholesale cost of gas and the cost of crude oil.
    — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Then Bruce Pearl made wholesale changes to the roster last season.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Core wholesale prices rose 0.3%, down from a 0.5% jump the previous month.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The new restrictions are not a wholesale ban on graphite exports.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s the good news for people who can’t get enough of the glorious, salty treat: So far, the rise in wholesale prices hasn’t been passed along to consumers.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The price of wholesale gasoline dropped to its lowest level of the year Thursday, dragged down by a nearly 5% decline in the price of crude oil.
    — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023
  • While any early, wholesale shift in attitude seems out of the question, the weeks ahead may bring some signs of movement.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Some hoard it and offer paid access back to us or just sell it wholesale to data brokers.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • This year’s version has a different tax approach than last year’s bill: a 25% tax on the retail price of the products rather than a tax on the wholesale price.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Neiman Marcus is also the designer’s largest wholesale partner in the world.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Vos compared the model to states that control the wholesale retail of alcohol or run their own liquor stores.
    — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The wholesale prices of diesel and gasoline have slipped and climbed, respectively, over the past three months, even while oil futures have seesawed.
    — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Read full article On Thursday, a reading of wholesale prices in June showed a decline for the second straight month.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • But wholesale tear-outs are not yet on the table, in part because of costs and concern about creating heat islands.
    — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 25 June 2023
  • Hermes International said Friday that earnings rose in the first half of the year, helped by the rebound of wholesale and in-store sales in Asia .
    — Pierre Bertrand, WSJ, 28 July 2023
  • Pushing into the second half of the season, there aren’t many wholesale changes that can be done to the practices, Riley acknowledged.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • On the wholesale side, a large part of the business at Star Bakery, Buckfire said, was their bread was sold to many metro Detroit restaurants and delicatessens.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2023
  • That’s because it is sold at just above wholesale cost, compared with pharmacy retail prices that might go up to $50.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 2 July 2023
  • The producer price index, which gauges wholesale inflation, rose to 1% from 0.8% the month before.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
  • His father, Moses Howard Stone, owned a wholesale paper business.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Today, what remains of the original structure stands on West 28th Street and is home to a wholesale beauty supply store.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • But to wipe them out wholesale — unnecessary, even petty or mean, I’m tempted to say.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The focus for now is on building a wholesale network and creating brand awareness.
    — Ezreen Benissan, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
  • In March, there was a wholesale mobilization in the state when Amritpal Singh, a separatist preacher, was on the run.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
  • What the auction houses sell is wholesale, though sometimes auction sales ignore the laws of prudence and common sense.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The complex has suffered disruption to wholesale diesel supplies this month.
    — Rachel Graham, Fortune, 28 June 2023
  • The annual inflation rate has bounced around north of 3% for months, the latest retail sales data came in soft, and wholesale prices took an unexpectedly higher leap.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
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wholesale

3 of 3 verb
  • The company wholesales clothing to boutiques in the area.
  • They've been used to ship drugs wholesale into the United States.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But a dealer can wholesale the car out to a state that issues the fresh title without tagging the car as salvage.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Expanding from their scoop shop to wholesale deliveries in 1979, the pair quickly brought their frosty wares to the northeast and soon enough across the U.S.
    — Merrill Fabry, Time, 4 May 2018
  • Cactus Corn plans to launch an e-commerce site this week, as well as wholesaling their products to local stores, Levandowski said.
    — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Liquor wholesales are prohibited by state law from selling to retailers on the list.
    — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The best option also going forward is probably that the Riksbank sticks to wholesale.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Illinois also could soon join the list, as Chicago wholesale gasoline sold at a record-low 20 cents Monday morning, Bloomberg data show.
    — Fortune, 24 Mar. 2020
  • According to Robertson, Garner gave him three bundles of heroin to wholesale in return for $105.
    — Chris Palmer, https://www.inquirer.com, 4 June 2019
  • This week, Vermont passed a first-in-the-nation law that would facilitate the state’s importation of prescription drugs wholesale from Canada.
    — Shefali Luthra, Washington Post, 22 May 2018
  • Fiat Chrysler and its peers are expected to lose tens of billions of dollars by idling their plants for weeks because they book revenue by wholesaling vehicles to their dealers.
    — Gabrielle Coppola, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Trump has rolled back Obama-era initiatives wholesale since taking office.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 31 May 2018
  • Selling these labels no doubt help beef up Stitch Fix’s profit margins because the brand is selling their own items instead of wholesaling pieces from other labels.
    — Cam Wolf, GQ, 29 May 2018
  • Kingpins and high-level dealers can reap hefty profits selling black market ivory, which one report estimates wholesales for $330 a pound in China.
    — Jani Actman, National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • ForwardGro and other growers will sell their products wholesale for less than that to a processor who will turn them into oils, tinctures or topical creams.
    — Erin Cox, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • While the vast majority of Ripley farm's revenue comes from wholesaling traditional milk, selling Guernsey A2 milk and cheese is a way to make extra income.
    — Michael Hill, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
  • Millions more are expected to come from wholesaling product to other licensed cultivators unable to meet the demands of their customer base.
    — David Smiley and Michael Auslen, miamiherald, 16 May 2017
  • With that, the dangers of Dodge became a permanent commodity—a cultural production that was retailed to a primary market of tourists, and wholesaled to readers and viewers.
    — Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Investigations by the state police and others showed that Wallin bought large quantities of methamphetamine from two California dealers and distributed the drug to wholesale and retail customers.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The company is also transitioning some locations to wholesale food operations to help the public find groceries.
    — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2020
  • But building is a sustainable business is about making one-on-one connections with individual buyers, then engendering loyalty rather than wholesaling themselves to death.
    — Noah Davis, GQ, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Consistently negative offer prices to wholesale power markets from renewable energy create soft market prices that continue to drive out more resilient coal and nuclear generation.
    — WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • Schnapp adopts Calvino’s five surviving topics wholesale: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The company wholesales clothing to boutiques in the area.
  • They've been used to ship drugs wholesale into the United States.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But a dealer can wholesale the car out to a state that issues the fresh title without tagging the car as salvage.
    — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Expanding from their scoop shop to wholesale deliveries in 1979, the pair quickly brought their frosty wares to the northeast and soon enough across the U.S.
    — Merrill Fabry, Time, 4 May 2018
  • Cactus Corn plans to launch an e-commerce site this week, as well as wholesaling their products to local stores, Levandowski said.
    — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Liquor wholesales are prohibited by state law from selling to retailers on the list.
    — Patrick Danner, ExpressNews.com, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The best option also going forward is probably that the Riksbank sticks to wholesale.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018

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