ten-cent store

Example Sentences

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Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.

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

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

"So you will be in charge of the house while I am away," said his mamma, as she started for the five and ten-cent store.

From Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail The Funny Monkey Boys by Garis, Howard R.

Instinctively she felt her grandmother would feel that a calamity had befallen them in losing the patronage of the manager of the ten-cent store.

From The Girl from Montana by Hill, Grace Livingston