Example Sentences

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It was in this spirit that she asked the store’s previous owner, Roger Page, if his enthusiasm for shopkeeping might be waning in 2015.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

What is really surprising is how well realized the shopkeeping component is, though.

From The Verge • Aug. 8, 2022

To his shopkeeping friend who can’t wait to bolt to Europe, there’s no future of any kind in Gaza.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Partly their differences were regional, the merchant and shopkeeping economy of Philadelphia vs. the plantation economy of Virginia.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

We should endeavor to reform this fault; we should use this powerful engine of healing nature to remove from us the reproach of being merely a shopkeeping and money-making people.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various