How to Use distributor in a Sentence

distributor

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  • The agency is also the creator and distributor of the postage stamp.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • While the distributor doesn't set the retail price, it will likely be sold for $7 to $10 a glass, Hisle said.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
  • As the largest distributor, McKesson was much more than a small player.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In the first half, Brogdon pushed the pace and was focused on being a distributor.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The Clippers wanted to make the three-time All-Star a bystander or, at worst, a distributor.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The ads are part of A-B’s overall make-good campaign with distributors.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 28 June 2023
  • But that's not all that the hip indie distributor that could has brought to audiences over the past 10 years — far from it.
    — Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Wall became the Clippers’ chief distributor again — this time, in passes to the Jazz.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The movie has sold worldwide but is still looking for a U.S. distributor.
    — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The raw ground beef was shipped to distributors in Georgia, Michigan, and Ohio in 10-pound plastic tubes.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Some were sent to a distributor in Illinois, where they were housed alongside prairie dogs.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Home Run Inn shipped the pizza in this recall to a distributor in Illinois.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 Aug. 2022
  • A lot of machines come with a plastic tamp, but few come with a proper distributor and tamp.
    — Jaina Grey Jeffrey Van Camp, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The Last Showgirl does not yet have a distributor or release date.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2024
  • This led to the film release by distributor Abramorama.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
  • At the time, the movie had no distributor, and Sundance hadn’t yet come around to galvanize the indie-film pipeline.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Purdy has flourished as the distributor in five starts in which the 49ers have faced just one team that finished the season with a winning record.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Austen arrived with good news from his meeting with the beer distributor.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2022
  • Sony, the film’s distributor, is not named as a defendant.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Earlier, the distributor had listed 30 movie theaters around Hong Kong where the film was set to be screened.
    — Kamakshi Gupta, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Atkinson added that the brand has distributors lined up to expand in Canada and Europe next year.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 27 Sep. 2024
  • As in the 2011 case of a major Seattle-area fish distributor who was jailed over false labeling.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The power of two chain buyers to make or break a writer’s career has been replaced by the power of one distributor to do so.
    — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Either way, products will come from the producer and then go to a distributor.
    — Ryan Malkin, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The front office could bring in a veteran guard on a cheaper deal as the team develops Evans as a distributor.
    — James Kay, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2023
  • While production is complete, the film does not yet have a distributor.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • That a Russian distributor would jump at the chance to try to release The Apprentice is perhaps no surprise.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The film’s distributor, Screen Media, is eyeing an early 2023 release date for the movie.
    — Sasha Urban, Variety, 7 July 2022
  • Part of the problem here is that Here, a very Americana type of movie, was made without a domestic distributor in place from the onset.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Having the holiday fall on a Wednesday is a gift, distributors say.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024

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