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
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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
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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
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Buy your mate little presents—from the ten-cent store and occasionally from more expensive places.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)
She's got a good place in the ten-cent store.
From The Girl from Montana by Hill, Grace Livingston