thrift shop
Example Sentences
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Now the Quarter Store in town is a thrift shop run by volunteers where everything costs a quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
And then someone took me to a thrift shop, and my life changed.”
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2025
Lawyer Aliyah Clarke and fashion designer Kaleen Sanois started a side business called 2nd Closet - a pop-up thrift shop where people can buy and sell pre-owned clothing.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
In the mid-20th century, the league operated the Wise Penny thrift shop on Capitol Hill.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024
That Sunday evening, Yoyo was reading some poetry to get herself inspired: Whitman's poems in an old book with an engraved cover her father had picked up in a thrift shop next to his office.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
