How do you use the word "bought" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "bought" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bought": My mother bought two bottles of orange juice. You have bought more postage stamps than are necessary.

Bought Meaning

/ˈbɔːt/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbsimple past and past participle of buy.

adjCompromised by money from special interests; corrupt.

Sentence Examples

My mother bought two bottles of orange juice.

You have bought more postage stamps than are necessary.

I bought some new clothes for the trip.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

buy purchase bribe

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Yesterday, my mother ____ a new pair of shoes from the mall downtown.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She ____ a beautiful new dress for the wedding party this Saturday.

Word Origin & History

See buy.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%." — 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

"the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men." — 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159:

"Her huge long taile her den all ouerſpred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall ſting." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 7:

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