How to Use dealing in a Sentence

dealing

noun
  • There were reports of shady dealings between the two sides.
  • He has a reputation for fair dealing.
  • Popular dissent focused on the self-dealing of the ruling government, which had been a target of street protests for months.
    Myung J. Chun, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
  • Bates has promised to crack down on drug dealing and gun possession, and plans to seek mandatory prison sentences for people convicted on gun charges.
    Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2022
  • Last Friday, bank-to-bank dealing in the overnight repurchase agreement market hit a record of more than $900 billion.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • No officers were injured during the arrest, and a search of the limo revealed methamphetamine and other items consistent with drug dealing, police said.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Other lawmakers have real estate dealings with a lobbyist.
    Alex Walters and Jack Armstrong, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The grassy expanse with a recreation center, basketball courts and baseball diamonds has been known as a location where drug dealing and violence happen.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The drug charges were later dismissed after Bishop's attorney argued police did not have a search warrant to look for evidence of drug dealing when the drugs were found.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2022
  • For their part, a few board members showed their own memory of history, alluding to the allegations of self-dealing that were made about Locke’s father and his golf course.
    Carson Kessler, ProPublica, 25 July 2022
  • Canepa also contends that as a family, the Wagners committed crimes including arson, drug dealing and theft.
    Chris Graves, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022
  • SoMa, in particular, is one of the city neighborhoods most impacted by rampant public drug dealing and overdose deaths largely driven by fentanyl.
    J.d. Morris, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Hsu said Gold Apollo had encountered at least one anomaly in its dealings with the Hungarian company, citing a wire transfer that took a long time to clear.
    Wayne Chang, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The area has long been a hot spot for open air drug dealing and drug use.
    Vincent Hill, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Since then, federal prosecutors have linked the gang to at least 15 murders, drug dealing, contraband smuggling schemes, arsons, robberies and extortion plots.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • One was about the homicide, and the other was about drug dealing.
    Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The store is across the street from U.N. Plaza, where drug dealing and use are commonplace.
    Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But, all of that wheeling and dealing would be for nothing.
    Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Jack Nunge's dealing with a cut on his face and he's been forced to check out of the game until Xavier can get the bleeding to stop.
    Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The idea that Joe Biden knew nothing about the business dealings is falling apart.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
  • But the document raised new questions about the men’s dealings.
    Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
  • With all the backroom dealing, McCarthy may secure the job title, but not the job.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In fact, the Chargers don’t do a lot of wheeling and dealing, period.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • A lot of world leaders want to have some sort of dealings with Putin, to reach agreements, to conduct some business with him.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Along the way, there was some indication that the F.B.I. was aware of his dealings with the Albanians.
    William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2023
  • As for the bankers’ own views of their dealings with Trump, testimony was often oblique.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Dream’s founder, Richard Berlin, declined my requests to comment on the record about his dealings with Madruga.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But phones are also used to carry out drug dealing and other crimes.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The city's Tenderloin neighborhood is rife with open-air drug use and dealing.
    Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 15 June 2023
  • Fakir looked the part of a star but was gracious and down to earth, happy to chat with fans and sign autographs in his day-to-day dealings at grocery stores, banks and the like.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2024

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