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Example sentences for "little shop"

  • Suddenly she disappeared, and keeping their eyes on the spot as well as they could, they found when they reached it a little shop, with a red curtain, half torn down, across the glass door of it.

  • But sometimes he would stop and try to comfort the naked little Freedom, disrobed of its space; and on one occasion was caught in the very act of delivering a canary that hung outside a little shop.

  • A Spanish word meaning "a woman who keeps a little shop or store [tienda].

  • Then he took a walk around the village; but, soon becoming tired, he sat down by a little shop to rest.

  • The young men often assemble at a little shop kept by a young woman, and there the story-teller of the barrio tells stories.

  • And there's a little shop in--But it's no good, Daddy.

  • When I heard from him last, he had sent to Russia for his wife, and had opened a little shop in the Ghetto.

  • He seemed to have prospered, for he took a little shop, and later on married an Englishwoman.

  • His whole soul rose with loathing at the thought of telling the truth to one so frozen and unsympathetic.

  • He'd shave every day if you took him, same as Mister Roberts does," said Sarah.

  • A few of his co-workers had sent their carriages; but most came themselves, to do the last honour to one greatly respected.

  • We said we wanted to find a little shop--a place where it was made.

  • The sisters did not come home together from their work, Lydia had an engagement with Mrs. Isaacs, of whom we have heard, and went to snatch a pretence of a dinner in a little shop to which she resorted when there was need.

  • Ackroyd turned his steps to a little shop close by.

  • After leaving the parlour, she ran out to a little shop in Kennington Road and purchased a sheet of note-paper and an envelope.

  • He passed a little shop, the proprietor of which,--a stout Malay, was apparently sleeping under a small awning hung over the front to protect the wares from the sun.

  • A stout coloured woman was standing at the door of a little shop, the stock-in-trade of which appeared to be composed principally of stale, unwholesome-looking fruit.

  • Among the most expert was Francisco Moreno, who had a little shop on the south side of Aliso Street, not far from Los Angeles.

  • He said it was a bad road and a little shop, and 'ad got a look about it he didn't like.

  • Illustration: "He said it was a bad road and a little shop, and 'ad got a look about it he didn't like.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little shop" 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:
    little better; little bottle; little closer; little cold; little conversation; little daughter; little flower; little help; little known; little light; little matter; little monkey; little mouse; little niece; little parsley; little party; little people; little picture; little quiver; little ship; little snow; little stock; little tired; little touch; little vanilla; true cause