ten-cent store

Example Sentences

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Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.

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

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

The "ten-cent store," the shoppers' delight, was packed with late shoppers like themselves.

From Briarwood Girls by Glover, Julia Lestarjette

Shirley brought home some packages of seeds she got at the ten-cent store, and there was great excitement planting them.

From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston