delicatessen

Example Sentences

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Across the corner from us was Langer’s, whose owner made national news in 2024 when he vowed to close his famed delicatessen if MacArthur Park didn’t improve.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

An early job washing dishes at a delicatessen piqued her interest in cooking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

This isn’t the first time Sparrow has converted classic New York installations into felt: She previously tackled a 1980s bodega in “8 Till Late,” and a delicatessen with “Lucy’s on 6th.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2023

Shumana Palit is a wine specialist and the owner of Ultracomida, a delicatessen and wine merchant with stores in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, and Narberth in Pembrokeshire.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2022

In a delicatessen, black flies swim over a half dozen tables.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr