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
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Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
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Now this young lydy’d be like a child with a dime sent into a ten-cent store to buy whatever ’e’d like.
From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
"So you will be in charge of the house while I am away," said his mamma, as she started for the five and ten-cent store.
From Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys by Garis, Howard R.