five-and-dime
Example Sentences
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Newberry’s five-and-dime store, she worked for a month and a half to pay it off in installments, wearing it for years until it all but disintegrated.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
He was the youngest of five children who grew up in Scituate, Mass., where his parents owned the local five-and-dime store.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2023
The pictures were put on postcards and sold at a different five-and-dime that his brother managed.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022
This was the headquarters for a five-and-dime company that, a century ago, was the symbol of American dynamism and of the emerging middle class when anything seemed possible in the country.
From New York Times • May 6, 2020
He starts a store, a sort of five-and-dime; he marries and fathers four attractive children; he receives a Medal of Freedom from President Bush, after which he promptly dies, making way for the eulogies.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
