Sentences with 'auction'
Example sentences and phrases with the word auction and other words derived from it.
• « In October, in one fell swoop, the Assembly seized church lands and property, selling them at auction to finance the Revolutionary state itself. Finally, in the early 1790s, it abolished titles of nobility altogether, which was almost redundant since those titles no longer had legal privileges attached to them. »
• « The price of an acre of land was set at a minimum of one dollar, and the land was to be sold at public auction under the direction of the Confederacy. »