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
The pictures were put on postcards and sold at a different five-and-dime that his brother managed.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022
Born in New York on June 6, 1933, Broad was an only child who grew up in Detroit, where his Lithuanian immigrant father, Leon, worked as a house painter before operating several five-and-dime stores.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2021
A coin, or battered key, a ring from the five-and-dime — ancient codes to crack when someone dies, if no one’s kept their history.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2020
After buying a few items at the five-and-dime store—a comb, toothpaste, notepaper—the four young black men would head for the lunch counter at the rear of the store, sit down, and order coffee.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
