How to Use sell-off in a Sentence

sell-off

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  • Was last week’s sell-off a blip or the start of a trend?
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 25 June 2023
  • The news rocked the French stock markets, prompting the worst sell-off in two years.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 17 June 2024
  • In the same vein, a miss on expectations could lead to a sell-off.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 July 2023
  • The move caused a wider sell-off in stocks and sparked fears that other banks may be at risk of failure.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Worst single-day sell-off in two years Out of the $30 billion in debt Warner Bros.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The report triggered a massive sell-off in Adani stocks.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In spite of the sell-off, most analysts raised their price targets for the streaming stock.
    — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2023
  • Are any one of these options best able to shield a company’s stock price from a sell-off?
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 5 May 2023
  • The sell-off comes a day after stocks sold off sharply on soft economic news.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The fiscal statement, made on Sept. 23, triggered a plunge in the pound and a government bond sell-off.
    — Philip Aldrick, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The automaker slashed its 2024 guidance and triggered a huge sell-off of its stock.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Hong Kong mirrored the sell-off in the Mainland’s afternoon sell-off.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The sell-off came amid concern that Nvidia is overvalued.
    — Nicole Narea, Vox, 26 June 2024
  • Beijing intervened this week to try to reverse the sell-off.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • It is expected that the sell-off auction will begin on Nov. 13, court records said.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Bitcoin has roared back from a massive sell-off during the scandal.
    — Sallee Ann Harrison, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • On the other hand, there was a steep sell-off in consumer staples, real estate, and health care.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Stocks have had a great year, despite Tuesday’s sell-off and the market swoon in early August.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Within an hour and a half, however, the gains had all but evaporated in a tidal wave of sell-offs.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
  • But follow-up details on those efforts have been scanty, driving a sell-off this week.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Regional banks and those with large uninsured deposits were hardest hit in the sell-off.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Nvidia’s last two earnings calls elicited sharp sell-offs of its sky-high stock, whose growth has driven more than a quarter of year-to-date gains on the S&P 500.
    — Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • By Thursday morning, SVB shares began to see a massive sell-off.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Those concerns sparked a sell-off last week, leading all three major indexes to break a five-week streak of gains.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That prompted a flurry of downgrades from analysts that in turn helped spur a steep sell-off in telecom stocks.
    — Krystal Hur, CNN, 18 July 2023
  • In the meantime, city officials and others are scrambling to prevent a sell-off and shutdown.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The sell-off happened in part because the country woke up to a new banking system and investors had to find the winners and losers, banking experts said.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Unsurprisingly, this news, along with Musk’s gloomy Cybertruck outlook, has caused a sell-off of Tesla stock in the days since.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Investors had long feared that possibility, which meant that some of the Fed's more hawkish moves led to stock market sell-offs.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
  • That helps explain a furious sell-off in bonds this morning, as investors have repriced the outlook for Fed policy.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
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sell off

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  • The country's bonds sold off, with the yield on the 10-year note rising toward 4.6%.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In the other 18 years, the city had to sell off buildings and stuff like that to balance the budget.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
  • So how does a team feel when the owner has sold off most of the major assets?
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2024
  • After two years of rising feed prices, he was forced to sell off his sheep.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2024
  • That year, the bubble began bursting when stocks sold off and IPOs slowed.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The stock is down about 16% this year, mirroring the broader market sell off.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 7 July 2022
  • Still, Uber sold off its self-driving unit two years later.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • When Japan hiked rates, investors sold off some of those assets and sent stock prices falling.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Uber in 2020 sold off its self-driving car project to Aurora.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Huawei’s revenues plunged by nearly a third in 2021, and the company sold off one of its smartphone brands in a bid to stay afloat.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • The data also finds that over the past year, retail investors have sold off over $55.31 billion in stocks.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Kroger declined to specify which stores in Oregon would be sold off to C&S.
    — oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That leaves open the opportunity for the new owners to construct homes to sell off.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
  • Stewart raised the topic of the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta that, if successful, would force the platform to sell off ...
    — Tom Hebert, National Review, 10 May 2024
  • Both could lead to the same result of forcing Chinese stakeholders to sell off their shares in the company.
    — Jeff Stein, Cat Zakrzewski, Drew Harwell and Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Both Deutsche and Fortress then sold off pieces of the loans to other institutions, spreading the risk and potential gain.
    — Paul Kiel, Fortune, 11 May 2024
  • Stocks sold off from July through October, as fears built that rates would stay higher for longer.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Last week, Kroger also declined to specify which stores in Oregon would be sold off to C&S.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The company has, since 2021, been selling off its U.S. assets.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2023
  • The United States government is about to begin selling off a bunch of gasoline.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 21 May 2024
  • Last year, Austin sold off a treasure trove of the star’s possessions during a Sotheby’s auction.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Half a decade later, and half a decade after the settlers left and the farm shares were sold off, Tugwell penned a preface for Banfield’s account of Casa Grande.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The firm created the Town of Scotia Company in order to sell off the properties, piece by piece.
    — Michael Waters, The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2024
  • As a result, many office landlords have slashed rent or sold off properties at a loss.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The move triggered a stock market sell off and pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to what was then its highest level since November.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Even farmers who are running out of groundwater may not need to sell off their land in order to restore their aquifers.
    — Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Nasdaq sold off its stake in the Armenian exchange in 2018.
    — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The act required the agency to sell off the crude helium to private vendors and cease operations this year.
    — Erin Stone, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2021
  • So Thursday night could be an audition of sorts as contenders ponder whether to make a move that could put them over the top and other teams begin to sell off assets and look ahead.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Berkshire Hathaway has steadily sold off around 125 million Bank of America shares since July.
    — Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024

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