A pile of damaged merchandise lay on a card table.

It's shocking to consider how much damaged merchandise is offered for sale."

Who loved her, damaged merchandise that she was?

"I will not be responsible for damaged merchandise.

This yard sale was not pushing damaged merchandise.

Thus I am damaged merchandise, due to resentments.

With that water come flooded basements and damaged merchandise and, later, lawsuits against the city.

"Madam," said the clerk stiffly, "I must insist the damaged merchandise be paid for."

"I prefer not to deliver damaged merchandise."

The Amnion will accept damaged merchandise, even if Captain Nick won't.

Mr. Walker's consumer department tries to mediate dozens of disputes every year over damaged merchandise.

Raphael finished his shopping and got into line behind the stout man with his cartful of damaged merchandise.

Biggest savings are on damaged merchandise, items from last season and those made in sample sizes (for men, small; for women, size 6 and 8).

In the film Mrs. Pugach confides that after her attack, she "felt like damaged merchandise."

"But this was damaged merchandise," Mrs. Douglas complained.

Damaged merchandise?

The money was taken from state emergency funds to offer six-month, interest-free loans of $5,000 to $25,000 to help with things like relocating or replacing damaged merchandise.

Since mechanics who traffic in black-market parts don't want damaged merchandise, thieves are likely to pass up a middle-aged, medium-priced car, especially if it's been dented.

"I will not accept damaged merchandise," he said, "and I advise you not to believe that I cannot threaten you."

"As a matter of fact," Omne said, I gave you no word not to do anything which I have done--not even about 'damaged merchandise.'

Companies like Lipton, Campbell Soup and Quaker Oats find themselves in a tug of war with their retailers over control of this damaged merchandise.

However, Gray and Salzman called into question the validity of those studies in their dramatic 1998 paper "Damaged Merchandise", demonstrating how very difficult it is to measure the effectiveness of usability inspection methods.

Schlock is such a word; it is descended from a Middle High German word for a hit or blow, and thus came to refer to damaged merchandise, and then to merchandise of poor quality.

Mr. DeLuca, 38 years old, is chief operating officer of Saw Mill International, which he said "buys and sells large quantities of damaged merchandise, from shrimp and meat to steel and heavy equipment."

A number of Japanese companies, including Tokyu, looked over Bloomingdale's, but all backed away, reportedly over concerns that the retailer looked like damaged merchandise because of the ills of the parent, Federated Department Stores.