Bought is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bought meaning
simple past and past participle of buy.
Using Bought
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of buy.
- In the example corpus, bought often appears in combinations such as: bought new, bought and, bought the.
Context around Bought
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bought
- In this selection, "bought" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, llc, actually, couple, immediately, big and gray stand out and add context to how "bought" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 16 i bought my first, advisors llc bought a new, bought new, llc bought and recently bought. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bought" sits close to words such as measures, avoid and improve, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bought
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I bought gray and blue, and then this year I bought green. (12 words)
Poundland has bought 71 Wilko stores, and B&M has bought another 51. (13 words)
While 11% bought immediately, 44% bought later online and 21% bought later in a physical store. (16 words)
The standard edition is a black cart, though the Collector’s Editions can be metallic silver (if bought from Limited Run Games), opaque blue (if bought from independent resellers in North America), or transparent blue (if bought from resellers in Europe). (41 words)
When the pandemic rolled around, the houses they bought soared in value amid an overpriced housing market; some boomers sold for a huge profit and bought another house, edging out first-time homebuyers with all-cash offers. (37 words)
In 2014, it was bought by Fullscreen, which in turn was bought by Otter Media (a joint venture of AT&T and Chernin Group) before Rooster Teeth became part of WarnerMedia under AT&T’s ownership. (36 words)
So when I was 16, I bought my first car, my mom didn't have to buy it for me, I bought a BMW and thought I was, you know, hot shit, you know? (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
We actually bought one couple bought a car off at Craigslist and used it to drive home, and we bought the Craigslist car back from.
While 11% bought immediately, 44% bought later online and 21% bought later in a physical store.
The standard edition is a black cart, though the Collector’s Editions can be metallic silver (if bought from Limited Run Games), opaque blue (if bought from independent resellers in North America), or transparent blue (if bought from resellers in Europe).
The government sector bought the most water, convert. convert of water was bought for domestic use, and convert of water was bought by the commercial and industrial sectors.
Adani ji, Ambani ji bought big politicians, bought all PSUs, the media, but they could not buy my brother and will never be able to do so.
And mum-of-one Ester, who has just bought a property in Wales with boyfriend Mr Dee, real name Glynn, has revealed the pricey gift he’s bought for her recently.
Bought for our double bed and after trying them bought some single ones for my son.
I bought gray and blue, and then this year I bought green.
In 2014, it was bought by Fullscreen, which in turn was bought by Otter Media (a joint venture of AT&T and Chernin Group) before Rooster Teeth became part of WarnerMedia under AT&T’s ownership.
Musk bought X for $44 billion last year and had criticized the platform for not allowing a full diversity of views to be shared before he bought it.
Number one academia has a long history where naming is bought, you donate money, so naming is bought.
Poundland has bought 71 Wilko stores, and B&M has bought another 51.
So -- and we bought -- just bought a few shares was $1.2 million in the first quarter.
So when I was 16, I bought my first car, my mom didn't have to buy it for me, I bought a BMW and thought I was, you know, hot shit, you know?
When the pandemic rolled around, the houses they bought soared in value amid an overpriced housing market; some boomers sold for a huge profit and bought another house, edging out first-time homebuyers with all-cash offers.
After the mill went away, the railroad was bought by a company that bought it for two million and scrapped it out for four million, and rail-banked it with the county.
Along the way, in 1967, he and Nellmary bought the 32 hectare "Orana" not far out of town, with which they also bought the existing registered flock of Poll Dorsets.
A number of other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of F. Headlands Technologies LLC bought a new stake in Ford Motor in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $26,000.
A number of other large investors have also bought and sold shares of T. Frank Rimerman Advisors LLC bought a new stake in AT&T in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $25,000.
FIIs had bought equities in the cash segment worth Rs 1944 crore while the DIIs had bought to the tune of Rs 2896 crore in the last trading session on Friday, according to data available.
Phrases with bought
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with bought
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: