wholesale house
Example Sentences
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From the very start, Renoir lampoons the craven cynicism of the good burghers of France, in a scene of a private banquet for the employees of the wholesale house where Legrand works.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 8, 2016
In Memphis, Tenn. one night last month, Brenton Root, 32, contract investigator for a wholesale house, went to a hotel dance with some friends and his pretty wife, Daisy, 30.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week one large eastern wholesale house found itself with 2,500,000 Ib. of prunes on hand, and no takers.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his brother and another Vermonter, Ezra J. Warner, he formed the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co., which grew with lusty young Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ll order some from the wholesale house, son. We do a real good bizness in fine-tooth combs. Lots a-town folks got trouble with them critters.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
