shopkeeper

Example Sentences

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Just across the street at the Ali Bin Ali grocery store, a shopkeeper was more apprehensive as he arranged boxes of Iranian dates and nuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

A retired shopkeeper who was told he was not British despite living in the UK for nearly five decades said he is "over the moon" to have been finally made a British citizen.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Majid, a mobile shopkeeper in his thirties, said this time felt different.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

“It was Ahmed the bystander who helped disarm one of the shooters,” said Latiph, referring to Ahmed el Ahmed, a shopkeeper who threw himself at one of the suspects on Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The shopkeeper nodded, gazed at the fine hat, and said, “It can be arranged, muchachos. Do you have someone to go to in the United States?”

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty