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
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
It's just some paint—five cans of black paint, and three brushes at the ten-cent store, and thank you very much.
From When Patty Went to College by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
Her curls were bound with a wreath of artificial roses from the ten-cent store, slightly over one ear.
From Winona of the Camp Fire by Widdemer, Margaret
