supermarket
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Shares of Walmart declined on Thursday after the world’s largest supermarket chain reported disappointing U.S. comparable sales growth, after drug prices were hit by changes to regulations on Medicaid prescribed medication.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Eli Lilly LLY 3.60%increase; up pointing triangle , whose executives have used the supermarket analogy, was behind many of this year’s deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Everything came crashing down. It was terrifying," Cristina Ruiz Lopez, a lab worker who was at a supermarket in Granada when the earthquake hit, wrote on X.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Now something of a local hero, the goat accompanied Promise to a nearby supermarket where fans clambered to take photos of the animal.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
We fill supermarket cases with their flesh, all slick and gleaming on heaps of ice.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
![]()
This week, some supermarkets in Tehran temporarily ran out of cooking oil and rice as shoppers scooped them for hoarding, residents said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Farmers who grow eating apples for supermarkets command higher prices for their fruit, so traditionally they have invested in irrigation systems.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
According to research from the bank Nationwide, a third of parents said they buy uniform from supermarkets, a third shop around for the best value and 23% purchase larger sizes so items last longer.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
They became ubiquitous in supermarkets across China, but gained a reputation as unhealthy and unsanitary -- an image latiao brands have spent years trying to counter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
When they do that, supermarkets find that invariably the sales of the product will go through the roof, the same way they would if the product had actually been put on sale.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
![]()