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

There wasn't one like it even in the five and ten-cent store.

From Uncle Wiggily in the Woods by Garis, Howard Roger

Shirley brought home some packages of seeds she got at the ten-cent store, and there was great excitement planting them.

From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston