second-hand

[ˌsekənd ˈhænd]

Definition:
1. Not new; owned by someone else before.
2. Learned from other people, not from your own experience.

Use 'second-hand' in a sentence:

• 1. Do you know anywhere I can buy a second-hand computer?
• 2. My brother got sick because of my second-hand smoke.
• 3. He sells a second-hand home.
• 4. They will put all these second-hand goods up for sale.
• 5. There is no safe level of second-hand tobacco smoke.
• 6. The store also has second-hand books and CDs/DVDs with the ideas to make the best of the used things.
• 7. He bought the second-hand car at a fair price.
• 8. I have a second-hand bike to sell at a fairly low price.
• 9. M: I have a friend who sells second-hand cars.
• 10. I bought the camera second-hand.
• 11. The second-hand car is still in excellent condition.
• 12. A second-hand car costs a fraction of a new one.
• 13. I only heard about it second-hand.
• 14. Second-hand cellphone store?
• 15. The denunciation was made on the basis of second-hand information.
• 16. He's a dealer in second-hand cars.
• 17. The quality in most second-hand shops is really very good these days.
• 18. I got this book by chance at a second-hand bookshop.
• 19. I was badly taken in when I bought that second-hand television set.
• 20. Why not buy a second-hand car first if you don't have enough money for a new one?
• 21. A student at a university in China hasinvented a creative method of keeping away from second-hand smoke in hisdormitory.
• 22. I bought my car second-hand.
• 23. This is much like a non-smoker getting cancer from second-hand smoke, while the heavy smoker is fortunate enough to smoke in good health.
• 24. There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
• 25. Buying a second-hand car can be a risky business.
• 26. "We addressed what we call second-hand TV," Brown said.
• 27. At this time, ReBicycle got involved and gave Leila a second-hand bicycle.
• 28. They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes for something that fits.
• 29. Well, I've grown to like second-hand things.
• 30. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.
• 31. He sold a bundle of old magazines to the second-hand bookstore.
• 32. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports.
• 33. The handicapped man got a second-hand handout of shorthand handbook beforehand.
• 34. Don't smoke, and avoid second-hand smoke.
• 35. Second-hand luxury no barrier to success.
• 36. While they could once buy second-hand textbooks, or share copies with friends, the digital systems are essentially impossible to avoid.
• 37. Second-hand smoke accounts for one in 10 tobacco-related deaths.
• 38. He makes his living buying second-hand jeans fromfleamarkets around Dakar.
• 39. There is also a sizeable second-hand market in textbooks.
• 40. Besides, second-hand smoke puts people's health at risk too.
• 41. We just can't find enough good second-hand cars to satisfy demand.
• 42. But her access codes for homework, which can't be rented or bought second-hand, were her most expensive purchases:$ 120 and$ 85.
• 43. She never eats out and, except for her T-shirts, all her clothes are second-hand.
• 44. We found two second-hand chairs that were going for a song.
• 45. How would the man feel if he found his book in a second-hand bookstore?
• 46. First, when you get your bike, whether it's new or second-hand, bring it as soon as possible to us.
• 47. Sometimes you can buy things second-hand.
• 48. The second-hand version is a poor copy of the original.
• 49. But the days of eating at Taco Bell and wearing second-hand clothes are over.
• 50. Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke is also dangerous.
• 51. The second has involved a tortuous row over imported second-hand cars.
• 52. He conceded that second-hand accounts are leading to rumour and counter-rumour.