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ten-cent store

[ten-sent, -sent] / ˈtɛnˌsɛnt, -ˈsɛnt /
NOUN
store with inexpensive items
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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

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

Everyone in ten-cent store calls them “poinsettias,” but named after J. R. Poinsett.

From Pipefuls by Christopher Morley

There was a filling station, a garage, some taverns, and a ten-cent store.

From The Skull by Philip K. Dick


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