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Example sentences for "shopping"

Lexicographically close words:
shopmen; shoppe; shopped; shopper; shoppers; shops; shopwoman; shore; shorebirds; shored
  1. The "Street of the Merchants," just referred to, is the fashionable shopping thoroughfare of Lima, where in the afternoons the ladies and gentlemen are seen in goodly numbers promenading in full dress.

  2. The principal shopping street is the Rua de Ouvidor, where the best stores and choicest retail goods are to be found.

  3. The Rua da Imperatriz is the principal wholesale street of the city, where the large warehouses are to be found, but the Rua dos Mercadores is the fashionable shopping street, through which the tramway also passes.

  4. Doing an errand one day for Mrs. Rossiter in the shopping part of Bellevue Avenue, I saw old Mrs. Billing going by in an open motor landaulette.

  5. I've got shopping to do this morning, and I'm going out to lunch, and I can pay some calls afterwards.

  6. It seems that Miss Rito, when shopping in the purlieus of Bond Street .

  7. Gentlemen consider it a very irksome task to go on shopping expeditions, and their ill-concealed impatience becomes equally irksome to you.

  8. Do not interfere with the shopping of other customers (who may chance to stand near you at the counter), by either praising or depreciating any of the articles they are looking at.

  9. This city is our metropolis, with which we are connected by small steamers crossing to and fro with the tide, and where all our shopping is done, our own ville being too thoroughly limited and roturier in taste to merit many of our shekels.

  10. But when it comes to shopping I am afraid of change.

  11. Nevertheless she came back from her first day's shopping with a headache.

  12. Pencil and note-book came out of her pocket, and one item after another of the morning's shopping was jotted down, and the result compared with the change in the housekeeping purse.

  13. I'd such a lot of shopping to do, but I got through it quicker than I thought.

  14. Betty will come with you, and we'll have a nice little visit in the city while she does her shopping and gets ready for her journey.

  15. They were to begin their Christmas shopping that morning, for the calendar showed them that whatever gifts they intended sending Betty and Eugenia must soon be started on their way, in order to reach them in time.

  16. Anne, don't forget to tell Miriam not to dare do any shopping until Mother and I arrive in New York," reminded Grace.

  17. She promised to wait for me, so that we could do our shopping together.

  18. Though anxious to meet her friends again in New York City, Grace had sighed with genuine regret at leaving this new-found peace and departing from Oakdale on the most momentous shopping tour she had ever before set out to make.

  19. I never knew before how much shopping one could do at the Stores.

  20. The next day, at an hour before the morning tide of shopping at Kendrick & Company's had reached the flood, two pretty glove clerks were suddenly tempted into a furtive exchange of conversation at an unoccupied end of their counter.

  21. And was I shopping with Mary Cassidy, Feemy?

  22. It's Mary Cassidy now; what business had you shopping with Mary Cassidy?

  23. Now I can go and finish my shopping in peace.

  24. Here come Madge and Aunt 'Lethe," he announced, "through with their shopping at last.

  25. Mrs. Jettson felt rather hurt at first that the matter was not delegated wholly to her, since the shopping and the work must be done in Washington.

  26. The shopping was done, and the gowns and coats and pelisses left at Mrs. Sweeny's, who was quite celebrated for her taste.

  27. The principal way in which he spent his time was shopping with Lady O'Hara, who saw that he had a regular outfit of suitable articles of clothing, all of the most durable and useful make.

  28. Then you shall come and live with me at the hotel, and help me do all my shopping and commissions, beside getting your outfit and the things you're to take out for your father.

  29. Now that Mrs. Cliff and Willy were in New York they both agreed that it would be well for them to attend to some shopping for which they had intended coming to the city later in the spring.

  30. That alarm was not in the shopping district," he explained, much relieved.

  31. Anyhow I watched my chance and made an arrest of both of them when they came to New York on a shopping expedition.

  32. Only three of the girls made shopping trips on Saturday and all took an automobile ride Sunday afternoon.

  33. The weather was fine, their voyage a prosperous one without any remarkable adventure, and the shopping proved quite as interesting and enjoyable as any of the shoppers had expected.

  34. New Orleans will of course be our best place for shopping if we want to see the goods before buying.

  35. Shopping is apt to tire me a good deal, and I think I shall prefer to spend the most of the time on the Dolphin.

  36. She had been on a shopping tour spending the money that David had given her, for silks and laces and jewelry, and now she was returning in high glee with her booty.

  37. My wife has some shopping to do in Albany, and in fact we are expecting to take a little trip.

  38. She opened the shopping bag swinging on her arm.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shopping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.