corner store

Example Sentences

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Neighbours recognised the first-generation daughter of immigrant parents from El Salvador, as as a girl who would visit the corner store almost daily to buy candy and soda, according to the Los Angeles Times.

From BBC

When you blend raw cocoa with sugar, it yields one of the most universally desired products on the planet, whether as part of a candy bar at the corner store or a high-end artisanal chocolate at a price point many times higher.

From Salon

But such magic tends to disappear under the humbling fluorescents of a corner store, particularly unkind to drag makeup.

From Los Angeles Times

In a famous scene from the 1968 film “Bullitt,” Steve McQueen’s character walks up to the awning of a corner store, grabs a newspaper, then an apple, a bunch of scallions and a stack of frozen TV dinners and heads back to his apartment across the street.

From New York Times

The scene was filmed at VJ Grocery, a real family-owned corner store in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.

From New York Times