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
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
My walls are hung with ten-cent store art, and if I were not awfully strong-minded I could not overcome the effect.
From Letters of a Dakota Divorcee by Burr, Jane
That," I said humoring him, for I knew something great would be evolved from his wonderful brain, "is a ball of red twine I bought at the ten-cent store.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
