dime store

Example Sentences

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And stop subjecting the readers of this fine newspaper to his bitterness and dime store psychiatry.

From Los Angeles Times

When he was 7, the family moved to Detroit, where his father opened a dime store.

From New York Times

My mother, too, had grown up poor; she’d lived above a dime store, dying to get out.

From New York Times

Port Clinton probably had many enticements and pleasures, but we ignored them all in favor of the dime store, a Woolworth’s with a slightly shady air and a creaky wooden floor, where we could buy kites and paper fans and miniature tea sets.

From The New Yorker

Robert Lee DeProspero, whose father was a coal-miner and whose mother was a dime store clerk, was born in Morgantown, W.Va., on Dec. 31, 1938.

From Washington Post