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How to use groceries in a sentence

She had been obliged to go once more to Mr. Hargrew for groceries, and to the meat store and to Mr. Vandergriffs.

While Lem was buying groceries, Scattergood selected two excellent blankets, carried them out, and put them on the horses.

SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND

A boy with a carton of groceries almost ran down Louis, then ducked down into the delivery entrance of the apartment-hotel.

She had a carload of groceries, and I helped her put them in the house.

WARREN COMMISSION (10 OF 26): HEARINGS VOL. X (OF 15)THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY

We bought our first groceries of Mrs. Robert Phin, of Strathdee, simply because she is an inimitable conversationalist.

Mrs. Meldreth was a respectable elderly woman, who kept a small shop for cheap groceries and haberdashery in the village.

A LIFE SENTENCEADELINE SERGEANT

"I believe our supplies (groceries) come from him," was her chilly reply.

I carried in groceries, peeled potatoes, scrubbed the kitchen floor and built fires each evening in the guests' rooms.

Pure food should certainly be studied, with investigations and recommendations of clean markets and groceries.

The same evening she went to the shop of John Hoyle, of Woodend, to buy groceries, and offered the unsigned note in payment.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985