Example Sentences

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Mothers of infants are the latest group of consumers to feel the pinch of supply chain issues as a major drug-store chain announces it will ration baby formula.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2022

For example, in 2017 the three largest drug-store chains held 67 percent of market share.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2019

Nonetheless, filling prescriptions behind a drug-store counter is perhaps the safest route to the upper middle class in America today.

From Economist • Oct. 29, 2015

According to camp logic, a high-power executive is equal to a ghetto banjee girl and a high-fashion model is equal to an inexperienced teenage boy with a $12 wig and some drug-store foundation.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2013

That’s the kind of thing that spoils trade, and it ain’t any too good here, anyway, with a drug-store 'most every block.”

From Vistas of New York by Matthews, Brander