stock-in-trade

How To Use stock-in-trade In A Sentence

• On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
• Plants, colors, textures, light: Not the usual stock-in-trade of a home store, but then Alta Tingle is not your usual store owner.
• There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings. Psychedelic Denver
• His stock-in-trade of arch self-deprecation doesn't cut any slack up here.
• And the traders are still there, their modern stock-in-trade tracksuits, tacky ornaments and whiskey sold for a 200 per cent mark-up.
• Take his other big stock-in-trade, photographic collages, of which there are several on the walls.
• Whilst drinking his beer he cheered the heart of the sorrowful Jack Slingsby by buying his whole tinker's stock-in-trade -- beat, plant, pony, and all -- concluding that "a tinker is his own master, a scholar is not. Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
• That repose of manner which is commonly believed to be the heirloom of noble birth is seen quite as often in the low-born adventurer, who regards it as part of his stock-in-trade; and there are many women, and men too, whose position might be expected to place them beyond the reach of what we call shyness, but who nevertheless suffer daily agonies of social timidity and would rather face alone a charge of cavalry than make a new acquaintance. Sant' Ilario
• Stockbrokers, like estate agents, have a vested interest in talking up their stock-in-trade.
• Anti-Western and, specifically, anti-Australian rhetoric has long been part of his political stock-in-trade.