barter

in a sentence

They would have to be willing to beg, barter, collude, and if necessary, resort to chicanery.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

The daily supplies at each of these were exhausted within hours, sometimes within minutes, and the only option then was to barter with one's neighbors or kin or acquaintances,  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

The way she uses these acts as currency, with which she barters for loyalty and allegiance.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed, 2013

Can you barter and handle yourself in the market?  (source) Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes, 2015

Jake bartered legal fees for plumbing work and landscaping and building supplies.  (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

—as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some buttons for bartering, trying to get something from Amy that wasn't on offer.  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

Yeah, yeah, I know what they call someone who barters her body in exchange for something she wants.†  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Identical, 2008

A person had only his life to barter with.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

They bartered ciuchy, second-hand clothes, with my companions in exchange for food.†  (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

With Sophie at gunpoint across the room, Langdon feared that discovering the cryptex's elusive password would be his only remaining hope of bartering her release.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

He makes the horses ill with too much water, cuts good harness, barters the tires of the wheels for drink, drops bits of iron into the thrashing machine, so as to break it.†  (source) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877

Sometimes he'd call Louie over, give him a package of the captives' food, and order him to walk it over to the fence, where a woman would take it in exchange for barter payment.†  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

They were met by mortar and machine-gun fire from straight ahead in the bartered palm trees.†  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995