ten-cent store
Example Sentences
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She was going to work in a ten-cent store and she did not want to work there.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Everyone in ten-cent store calls them “poinsettias,” but named after J. R. Poinsett.
From Pipefuls by Morley, Christopher
There was a filling station, a garage, some taverns, and a ten-cent store.
From The Skull by Dick, Philip K.
