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.
  • Part of my dealing with it is to talk about it and share it.
    — Tanisha Thomas, Billboard, 21 July 2022
  • The area has long been a hot spot for open air drug dealing and drug use.
    — Vincent Hill, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Never mind that Getz’s job was to do some of the dealing.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
  • One was about the homicide, and the other was about drug dealing.
    — Rekha Tenjarla, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Like the dealing with the virus itself, the answer to that question isn’t cut and dried.
    — Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020
  • But its scope reaches the heart of the firm’s business dealings.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025
  • But that’s not quite how the bad-faith dealing went down in real life.
    — Robert Daniels, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • That, more than all the drug dealing said to take place, is the business world that produces many of these rappers.
    — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The pick didn’t come without a little bit of wheeling and dealing.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2021
  • At the same time, Deadline noted, the show's deal with CBS runs out at the end of this season, adding more dealing to be done.
    — Rich Heldenfels, Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • With a top-four place well within reach, dealings off the field are finally poised to take off soon.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But every politician -- including Biden -- knows that the dealing with the media is part of the gig.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In fact, the Chargers don’t do a lot of wheeling and dealing, period.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The movie tells the story of four friends who meet in adolescence in 1970s Roxbury, and fall into a life of drug dealing and street crime.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
  • 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
  • And while tremendous progress was made initially, the tents are creeping back in and the drug dealing remains in full swing.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Following the wheeling and dealing, some eyes turned to the Atlanta Falcons at No. 4.
    — oregonlive, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Yet in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, the sidewalks have still hummed with the commerce of drug dealing.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • This bill will make it so that agencies have to reapply every three years for the exemption, making state business dealings more transparent.
    — Tom Speaker, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Barrenechea was a late addition to Villa’s summer transfer dealings with Juventus.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025

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