How to Use dime store in a Sentence

dime store

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  • So, there’s no need for a trip to the quaint dime store.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Leon Broad opened a dime store there, and his wife kept the books.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 1 May 2021
  • The space has once been a G.C. Murphy five-and-dime store.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Grant building was built around 1946 and had its own dime store for years.
    — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 7 June 2019
  • There were more shops — a fruit store, the five & dime store — and everything was on the main street.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 18 June 2021
  • His mother, the former Ida Cohen, worked in a dime store.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
  • At the time, America's premier five-and-dime store chain billed the new Woolworth's lunch counter as the city's largest.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2021
  • In 1963, Andy Warhol walked into a dime store photo booth and mugged for the camera, his shades on, his tie askew.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
  • When the sit-ins at Woolworth's dime store downtown made the news, her parents' half-truths started to come undone.
    — USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2018
  • From Sebastian Kresge's first five-and-dime store in 1899 to now, the store has gone from a dynasty to bankruptcy.
    — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2021
  • He and his youth baseball teammates solicited donations in front of the local pool hall and dime store.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 10 May 2020
  • The 1907 Italianate building that once housed the five-and-dime store is now Object Limited, a shoppable boutique lodging.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Though very rich, Kresge, who developed one of the first five and dime stores, eventually Kmart, was known to be personally cheap.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2019
  • Kmart started in 1899 when founder Sebastian Spering Kresge opened a five-and-dime store in downtown Detroit bearing his name.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
  • His father, Chester, managed a dime store, and his mother, Isabelle (Olenick) Goldstone, was a homemaker who as a teenager had danced in vaudeville.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
  • According to one detailed profile in Forbes, Green started his working life as a stock boy, then worked for a five-and-dime store before opening the first Hobby Lobby.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Cinema and dime store novels have romanticized the Western gunfight to the degree that folks believe grown men would stand with 10 paces between them and draw their pistols in a fight to the death.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • For 117 years, Woolworth’s five-and-dime stores were fixtures in communities, and their lunch counters and soda shops served as local gathering places.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Once confined to dime store spinner racks, Marvel’s creations have burst free of their humble roots, hulking out into one of the most successful transmedia empires on the planet.
    — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • To many Arlington residents, this five-and-dime store has felt like home for 64 years, a shop filled with nostalgia in the form of licorice pipes, candy cigarettes, rubber chickens, washboards, velcro, and more.
    — Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
  • Police also received a panicked report from five-and-dime store J.J. Newberry: a caller had told an employee that a bomb was hidden under a counter.
    — oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2020

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