wholesale house
Example Sentences
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From the very start, Renoir lampoons the craven cynicism of the good burghers of France, in a scene of a private banquet for the employees of the wholesale house where Legrand works.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2016
Last week one large eastern wholesale house found itself with 2,500,000 Ib. of prunes on hand, and no takers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a wholesale house for heavy spectacle it is no more.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Memphis, Tenn. one night last month, Brenton Root, 32, contract investigator for a wholesale house, went to a hotel dance with some friends and his pretty wife, Daisy, 30.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hit means you respect life like it is—like God made it—even when it ain’t what you’d order from the wholesale house.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
