ten-cent store
Example Sentences
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She was going to work in a ten-cent store and she did not want to work there.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
After work that night, Eveley went into the ten-cent store, and bought a startling array of drums and horns and small shovels, and sent them out to Eileen’s for the babies.
From Eve to the Rescue by Dudley Gloyne Summers
Shirley brought home some packages of seeds she got at the ten-cent store, and there was great excitement planting them.
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
