department store

Example Sentences

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In that post, he denied Carroll's claim that she had been attacked by him in the mid-1990s in a New York department store dressing room.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

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

From Barron's • May 18, 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

They got off in the city center next to an old stone church, which she did know, opposite a big department store, which she didn’t.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman