ten-cent store

Example Sentences

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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

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

There wasn't one like it even in the five and ten-cent store.

From Uncle Wiggily in the Woods by Garis, Howard Roger

One day, one dreadful day, the manager of the ten-cent store came to Elizabeth with a look in his eyes that reminded her of the man in Montana from whom she had fled.

From The Girl from Montana by Hill, Grace Livingston