How to Use department store in a Sentence

department store

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  • One whiff at a department store may not be enough when nailing down your signature scent.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The department store giant has so far avoided the worst of the glut of goods that has tripped up so many retailers.
    — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
  • She was raised by her paternal grandfather, a generous and cultured man who owned a department store and a bank.
    — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The township purchased the vacant department store last year for $2.2 million.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The remodeling projects will extend roughly from the mall's food court to the Nordstrom department store.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2022
  • In 1901, the year that Queen Victoria died, Daniel department store was born.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Durham worked for an outside company that provided housekeeping and cleaning services at the department store.
    — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Dillard’s — The department store chain slipped more than 9% on disappointing quarterly results.
    — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • At the department store, Alice’s friends gossip about Margaret’s transgression of company rules and the consequences that followed.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The mannequins in the old department store stand naked.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The elves made their debut in the 1950s in the windows of Shillito's department store.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The department store opened its first small-format store in 2020 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Mabel asked, on our way to work at the department store, bits of snow catching in her hair.
    — Colin Heasley, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The department store building was demolished in 2014 to make way for the Whole Foods store.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Carroll has claimed that around 30 years ago in a department store, Trump raped her.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The case stemmed from what Carroll described as a chance encounter with Trump at a high-end department store in the mid-1990s.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 28 June 2023
  • Young soon dropped out of school and took a job in the appliance department of a department store.
    — Stuart Silverstein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2024
  • Go car spotting in the Knightsbridge area around the pricey Harrods department store.
    — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The Italian fashion house just opened a chic new pop-up cafe in Harrods department store.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Yesterday, my husband and I went to a department store to buy a pair of slippers for him.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The episode shows Raven getting passed over for a job in a department store in favor of her white friend Chelsea (Anneliese van der Pol).
    — Liv Facey, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The store went on to become a successful chain in the Milwaukee area and branched out in 1962 with its first department store.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • The websites of big department stores like Nordstrom or Saks are better.
    — Ian Salisbury, wsj.com, 22 Nov. 2023
  • When first popularized, it was worn by men and women alike, but in the 1920s, U.S. department stores claimed blue for boys and pink for girls.
    — Karena Phan, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • The movie Miracle on 34th Street is based on a real-life department store.
    — Kristen Adaway, Woman's Day, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Macy’s and the entire department store sector have been hit on all sides in recent years.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • What to Do Mitsukoshi Ginza This is a high-end department store with an amazing food hall.
    — Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • While the brand is in just about every major department store, the best place to buy Samsonite luggage is on Amazon.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022

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