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
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
One day, one dreadful day, the manager of the ten-cent store came to Elizabeth with a look in his eyes that reminded her of the man in Montana from whom she had fled.
From The Girl from Montana by Hill, Grace Livingston
Now this young lydy’d be like a child with a dime sent into a ten-cent store to buy whatever ’e’d like.
From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
