shopkeeper

Example Sentences

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A shopkeeper who emigrated from Peru 25 years ago says, “It’s a big holiday for us.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

With glasses perched on his nose, 43-year-old shopkeeper Minati Rout completes his journey by passing a final test: separating small pebbles from grains of rice.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

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

The person who had tipped off the shopkeeper about the robbery, White was hardly surprised to learn, was William K. Hale.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann