general store

Example Sentences

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His father was an assistant county sheriff, and his mother helped run her family’s general store.

From Washington Post

“These companies pay their employees a living wage and use high quality ingredients,” explained Emily Rodia, owner of Good Buy Supply, a sustainable general store in Philadelphia.

From Seattle Times

The facades for a jail, a general store, ticket office and a cantina still survive, although the old railway station did not.

From BBC

The trail was bathed in gold light as we continued skiing into the afternoon, passing through the small village of Craftsbury and its general store.

From New York Times

The trappings of the Senate were another world from Mr. Abourezk’s rough-and-tumble childhood on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, where his Lebanese parents had immigrated and ran a general store.

From Washington Post