ten-cent store
Example Sentences
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She was going to work in a ten-cent store and she did not want to work there.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The "ten-cent store," the shoppers' delight, was packed with late shoppers like themselves.
From Briarwood Girls by Glover, Julia Lestarjette
They wound the goldy-brown mass up on the very top, and completed the effect by hunting out a pair of plain glass eye-glasses, which Tom had brought from the ten-cent store once long ago.
From Winona of the Camp Fire by Widdemer, Margaret
