bargain-counter
Example Sentences
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Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray.
From Time Magazine Archive
Close behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bargain-counter symphony was the idea of Nicholas Johnston, a wealthy photographer whose portraits of the carriage trade fetch the fanciest prices in northern California.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the prices of construction fall until they arouse "the bargain-counter instinct" of investors once more, and the cycle begins afresh.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter.
From Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Coolidge, Calvin
