thrift shop
Example Sentences
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Now the Quarter Store in town is a thrift shop run by volunteers where everything costs a quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
The defence claimed the case was like a "puzzle from a thrift shop" as it has pieces missing and there is not a complete picture.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2025
And then someone took me to a thrift shop, and my life changed.”
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2025
One day she shows up in a new Chanel suit, bought at a thrift shop.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
She went to end-of-summer sales and bought everything in a size four; six months later she would be forced to donate it all to a thrift shop.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
