SHOP in a Sentence

Learn SHOP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

351 example sentences for SHOP, such as:

1. Her brother runs a record shop in Chester.
2. The shop laid the cloth by for a customer.
3. We should buy several articles at the shop.
4. A new kind of car was on display in the shop.
5. It was a small shop and there wasn't much choice.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shop
 n.  a building where goods or services are sold; a store
 v.  visit stores or websites to buy goods
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The unravaged state was a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Mrs. Merriwether said that when she made a little more money she was going to open a bake shop downtown.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  I saw Will over at the blacksmith's shop, getting the horse shod.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
4  Since the Ku Klux lynching, the ladies had been practically immured, not even going to town to shop unless there were half a dozen in their group.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
5  It was Saturday, the biggest day of the week for the store, for all the farmers came to town to shop that day, but she asked no questions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
6  She had decided to defer the purchase of the dressing-case till she should receive the bill for her new opera-cloak, and the resolve made her feel much richer than when she had entered the shop.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7  But at the very outset of Gerty's campaign this vision of the green-and-white shop had been dispelled.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  A jewelry shop with tinny-looking wrist-watches for women.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  A tobacco shop called "The Smoke House," filled with young men shaking dice for cigarettes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  Between a large new "block" of two-story brick shops on one side, and the fire-brick Overland garage on the other side, was a one-story cottage turned into a millinery shop.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  If any man don't like my shop, he can get up and git.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  I got them from an importing shop in Minneapolis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Carol hastened out of the shop exulting, "She didn't make fun of me."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  It had an unobstructed view of a vacant lot and Nat Hicks's tailor shop.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
16  A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.
17  The shop is staffed by one paid worker and three volunteers.
18  A group of young lads were standing outside the shop.
19  Her brother runs a record shop in Chester.
20  We should buy several articles at the shop.
21  His father dispatched him to the shop to buy beer.
22  A new kind of car was on display in the shop.
23  It was a small shop and there wasn't much choice.
24  This shop has a good assortment of goods to choose from.
25  He's gone down to the corner shop to get some milk.
26  He suddenly thought of the shop standing in the corner of the street.
27  The girl in the shop is always eager to please every customer.
28  The shop is giving away a sample pack to every customer.
29  The shop laid the cloth by for a customer.
30  The arrival of the first customer caused a flutter in the shop.