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Example sentences for "grocery store"

  • At this juncture, as if prearranged, Obadiah Strout suddenly emerged from the grocery store.

  • The paper, was the color of the paper, that you would get in a grocery store, is that it, a bag in a grocery store?

  • Yes, sir; like a little paper sack you get out of a grocery store, you have seen these little old sacks that you could buy, sandwich bag, sack.

  • In 1890 Mr. Gariss came to Germantown and established a grocery store.

  • For a short time he conducted a grocery store in Middletown, then became connected with the Carmel Courier.

  • In 1904 he established a grocery store at Gardnertown, which he is conducting with much success.

  • The late Robert Hyndman was one of Newburgh's successful merchants, conducting a grocery store on Broadway for forty years.

  • His rise from clerk in a grocery store to one of the greatest capitalists in the history of the world is an interesting one, as well as an important one in the commercial history of America.

  • The latter was of Quaker stock, was raised on a farm, and at the age of seventeen became a clerk in his uncle's grocery store at Baltimore.

  • At the age of eleven, George Peabody was forced to begin to earn his own living, and a place was found for him in a grocery store.

  • I remember the whipping he got, too, for filching sugar and coffee and beans from the pantry and opening a grocery store in our barn.

  • It's put me back where I belong-- behind the counter of a grocery store.

  • He remained for several years digging gold as a placer miner and keeping a grocery store, and for a time he ran a stage between Georgetown and Coloma, earning express, passengers, and the mail.

  • The business finally drifted into a grocery store, as it seems that the settlers preferred sugar and prunes to pills and quinine.

  • At length, in 1859, he opened a grocery store on the northwest corner of Los Angeles and First streets, which he conducted for many years.

  • He's clerkin' down to McGuire's grocery store, if you want to know.

  • How do you suppose I feel to think of dad peddling peas and beans and potatoes down to McGuire's grocery store?

  • Mr. McGuire, it might be mentioned in passing, kept a grocery store.

  • He had bought some supper at a grocery store, and, after spending an hour there, had set out again on his wanderings.

  • He did not remain after recess, but resumed his wanderings, and about noon entered a grocery store, where he made a hearty lunch.

  • He halted at length before a grocery store, in front of which he saw a small group of men standing.

  • Two weeks after I sold the barber shop I got in with Morello and opened a grocery store in Mott Street.

  • That same evening at the appointed hour I went to the Jones Street house and inquired in a grocery store on the street floor for Don Peppe.

  • Terranova thereupon rushed down to Milone's grocery store at No.

  • I looked it over," and she said, "It's too far from a grocery store.

  • Mrs. Clark told me that sometime he would take Marina to grocery store, and sometimes she would take her.

  • With that Eddy Carroll made a dart into Anderson's grocery store, which he had reached by that time.

  • I think he is much better bred, and he certainly knows much more than Ina's husband, even if he does only keep a grocery store; but then army officers are not supposed to know much except how to fight.

  • When I am a man I am going to keep a grocery store.

  • My father said he thought you were, and somehow had got stranded in a grocery store.

  • For eight years prior to his escape he had been hired out, a part of the time as porter in a grocery store, the remainder as bar-tender in a saloon.

  • He then hired to a Mr. Sullivan, who kept a grocery store, to do jobs.

  • Valentine Dinner SOUP: Put into the clear soup the noodle hearts, which may be purchased at a grocery store, or have a vegetable soup, slicing the vegetables and cutting them into little hearts with a knife.

  • In a quarter of an hour the whole interior was in flames, and in an hour only a grim, black skeleton, lighted up by occasional flashes of flame, remained of Strout and Maxwell's grocery store.

  • What did he want of a grocery store except to beat me out of it?

  • I walked on rapidly, and soon came up with another policeman, who was leaning against a grocery store.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grocery store" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    any case; busily engaged; but more; cause and; coon hunt; drizzling rain; grocery store; high state; keep from; knew just; more serious; pencil sketch; route from; royal decree; say about; started early; supernatural revelation; teaspoonful salt; three eggs; thy heart; trace the; voice rose