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Example sentences for "doing business"

  • Merchants like to deal with a man who is strictly business when they both get to doing business.

  • It is a great disappointment to call upon a customer with whom you have been doing business for a long time and find that he has already bought.

  • Twenty-four dollars are made in a minute and a half by a traveling man when he gets to doing business with a first-class merchant.

  • I would rather go out making business on Saturday than any other day because the merchant is doing business and is in a good humor, and you can get right at the point.

  • She spoke with a hard dignity, the lady, and a great effect of doing business, a kind of assertion of the legitimate.

  • Elgin was abroad, doing business on its wide margin of opportunity.

  • He'll be able to get a motorbike there," a suggestion which gave Mr Hesketh to reflect later that if that was the general idea of doing business it must be an easy country to make money in.

  • You shall be instructed in the Armenian way of doing business—I think you would make an excellent merchant.

  • That night I dreamed I had acquired a colossal fortune, some four hundred thousand pounds, by the Armenian way of doing business, but suddenly awoke in dreadful perplexity as to how I should dispose of it.

  • It is true, Mr. Jasper, as you have been informed, that I am not satisfied with your way of doing business.

  • You seem to understand me, and to comprehend my mode of doing business.

  • I didn't like his modes of doing business, and, therefore, left him.

  • You shall be instructed in the Armenian way of doing business--I think you would make an excellent merchant.

  • This being an unusual way of doing business, excited the agent's suspicion.

  • For instance, new districts are opened for commercial enterprise, new methods of doing business develop, bringing increased activity in their train, and all this, has to be regulated or arranged for.

  • All right, but from whom will you take the money which is required by this modern way of doing business?

  • A petition in bankruptcy was this day filed against Immerglick & Frank, doing business as the 'Vienna Store.

  • Philip Hahn, doing business here as the Flower City Credit Outfitting Company, announces that he has taken into partnership Emanuel Gubin, who recently married Mr. Hahn's niece.

  • Unless ye do, the percentage cost o' doing business is going to be conseederably higher than twenty per cent.

  • They don't keep up to date in their ideas and methods of doing business.

  • The country over, there are comparatively few houses that appreciate the full possibilities of doing business by mail.

  • Conveyances of real property should be made to or by the individual partners "doing business as," etc.

  • If, however, the New Jersey corporation comes to New York and makes a regular practice of doing business, it must comply with the provisions of the corporation law of New York, and secure a license to do business in New York.

  • Foreign corporations are not necessarily confined to doing business in their own State; they may enter other States.

  • Ordinarily, contracts may be made in the firm name and by one partner, but contracts under seal should be made in the names of the partners "doing business as," etc.

  • He did not like this loose way of doing business; they need not open land offices for that purpose; some way would be found out to give the people satisfaction.

  • SMITH thought this was a very unfair way of doing business, but he had been used to such things.

  • If this was the usual mode of doing business, he hoped it would not be referred.

  • What was there wrong in their manner of doing business?

  • In doing business, by which was meant buying and selling and manufacturing, also financial dealings and commerce, the passion for money-getting was particularly prominent.

  • To return to your first question, as to what there was wrong in their way of doing business, I want to say with emphasis that the essence of the wrong was in an undue regard for self and an almost total disregard for the interests of others.

  • So your way of doing business may be honest, but in our more ideal state we see that it is not right.

  • The story is immaterial in itself, except as an illustration of Ralston’s offhand way of doing business, and his confidence in me as his friend.

  • Besides, we had a direct way of doing business then, quite different from the dark-lantern methods of to-day.

  • Our way of doing business may be illustrated by two adjoining reservoirs, one small and one very large.

  • Among these stresses is the gradual increase in the costs of doing business.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doing business" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    building stone; definite proportions; different individuals; doing business; doing good; doing here; doing right; doing something; doing things; doing this; doing well; doing what; doing work; doing wrong; intestinal canal; know them; late father; modern usage; much has been said; not more; punishment inflicted; regular military; shall seek; surgical instruments; thou desire; usually supposed