department store

Example Sentences

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Macy’s faces declining department store views, but Bloomingdale’s comparable sales increased 7% last year.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

With its brass rails and swing doors it has the feel of an old-fashioned department store.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

It depicts her in a black dress, ready to depart from her home in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., in November 1940, for Manhattan, where Gimbels department store was displaying her works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Get thee to a department store for some soft furnishings.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

The red velvet that had flown all over the snow that day when she and Lena and her mother had walked past the hospital on their way to the department store.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison