The greengrocer who brought cabbages to the corner of the Latchmere Road must have leant upon the oar with the unearthly grace of the gondolier.
The greengrocer does not inform you that, on the whole, his potatoes are not bad, considering that he bought them from a farmer with a leaking shed.
In walking along the street, I had as yet looked in vain for a familiar face, or even a transmitted face; here was the very greengrocer who had been weighing and handling baskets on the morning of the reception.
Mr. Hearty was a greengrocer who had one eye on business and the other eye on God, in case of accidents.
I don't think so, sir," said the greengrocer affably.
The greengrocer suddenly turned and peered down a stairway.
It was impossible not to go out with the greengrocer every day.
But thegreengrocer from Kent reeled down the street to the nearest public-house.
Then he told her how there had been no money to carry on the fruit-growing, and how his sister had married a greengrocer at Buxton, and when everything went wrong he had come to lend a hand with their business.
By this time Philip was inside the shop, and the stout greengrocer and his equally stout spouse were gazing open-mouthed at this well-dressed youth who had supplanted the thin tatterdemalion so much discussed by them and their neighbors.
The one man he had forgotten was his greengrocer friend, who had indeed acted the part of the Good Samaritan.
No wonder thegreengrocer lost his breath and his power of speech.
He would say that he was not a greengrocerwho would think first of greens.
Thoreau would have been a jollier fellow if he had devoted himself to a greengrocer instead of to greens.
That is to say, about fifty days on shore out of the year, and three hundred and fifteen days on what the cockney greengrocer living next door to Jim styled the "'owlin' deep.
Guedalyah the greengrocer bent over a bin of potatoes.
Truly we wish that," said the greengrocer cautiously.
Other speakers followed but in the end Guedalyah the greengrocer prevailed.
Of course I won't forget," cried thegreengrocer querulously.
You're right--people about here say Guedalyah the greengrocer is always right.
But Guedalyah the greengrocerwas not the man to encourage idle hopes.
Perhaps the greengrocer has cucumbers or carrots for sale; in that case he would sell C.
Any boy may start the game, by saying, “I am a greengrocerand I sell O.
Whoever is the first to guess, whether it is a girl or a boy, now becomes the greengrocerand uses the same words as before, only substituting another letter.
It was just like a respectable greengrocertrying to reprove Zenobia or Cleopatra.
Also our greengrocer supplies us with potatoes which on peeling turn out irregular polyhedrons.
In France, be it remembered, the King and his greengrocer sent their sons to the same school (which did not happen to be M.
The soldier sang bass, like a motor-lorry in a hurry to get home over a rough road, and the stout lady sang soprano, and the elderly greengrocer only squeaked.
It is not so rosy as it was, but the greengrocer says red-faced babies are apoplectic and that the reason it twitches so much in its sleep is because it is so full of vitality.
He has done what not even a greengrocer should do.
The greengrocerdid as he was told, with a show of great humility, and obsequiously handed Mr. Tuckle the carving knife; in doing which, he accidentally gaped.
The greengrocer put on a pair of wash-leather gloves to hand the plates with, and stationed himself behind Mr. Tuckle's chair.
Sam called the greengrocer a "desp'rate willin," and ordered a large bowl of punch: two circumstances which seemed to raise him very much in the opinion of the selections.
The greengrocer and his wife then arranged upon the table a boiled leg of mutton, hot, with caper sauce, turnips, and potatoes.
Upon this, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz prayed a tales; the gentleman in black then proceeded to press into the special jury, two of the common jurymen; and a greengrocer and a chemist were caught directly.
The obvious remedy, says Mr. Lloyd George, is for the greengrocer to raise the prices in his town!
Upon this, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz prayed a TALES; the gentleman in black then proceeded to press into the special jury, two of the common jurymen; and a greengrocer and a chemist were caught directly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greengrocer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
