shopkeeper

Example Sentences

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Just across the street at the Ali Bin Ali grocery store, a shopkeeper was more apprehensive as he arranged boxes of Iranian dates and nuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Majid, a mobile shopkeeper in his thirties, said this time felt different.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

He says he feels lucky to have a big family but knows for some customers a conversation with a shopkeeper might be the only one they have some days.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

“It was Ahmed the bystander who helped disarm one of the shooters,” said Latiph, referring to Ahmed el Ahmed, a shopkeeper who threw himself at one of the suspects on Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

A shipbroker is a kind of enormous shopkeeper for ships, and by far the most important item he supplies to them is the fuel on which the ship’s engines run.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl