retail

Example Sentences

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José Rodríguez, a pork butcher who has a stall in the market, said that retail prices had remained steady since the crisis began.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

The former “Cosby Show” actor became the subject of viral job-shaming, with critics mocking him for working retail decades after his television success.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

The WRS is increasingly advising caution about the U.S. economy since retail purchasing is trending toward discounters, suggesting pressures may be building among lower- and middle-income consumers.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Ever since it emerged out of California’s skateboard shops and from the streets of Flatbush in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the 1980s, however, this category has exploded into a multibillion-dollar retail business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

And when he came to understand what it meant he was so taken with it that he began to retail the story himself, until at last he must have come to believe he really had.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner