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Example sentences for "shop"

Lexicographically close words:
shooters; shooteth; shooting; shootings; shoots; shopgirl; shopgirls; shopkeeper; shopkeepers; shopkeeping
  1. Francis Haley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the corner of Chancery Lane in Holborn.

  2. Dunstans Church Yard in Fleet Street, at the Shop turning up to Clifford's Inn.

  3. London: Printed by Thomas Harper for Benjamin Fisher, and are to be Sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Talbot, without Aldersgate.

  4. Sold by Joseph Brunning, at his Shop at the Corner of the Prison Lane next the Exchange.

  5. London: Printed by George Purslowe for Samuel Rand, and are to be solde at his shop neere Holburne-Bridge.

  6. Richard Harper, at his shop in Smithfield.

  7. London: Printed for William Butler, and are to be sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstons Church Yard Fleet Street.

  8. Samuel Man, and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-Yard, at the signe of the Ball.

  9. When Gavin was twelve he went to the university, and also got a place in a shop as errand boy.

  10. I got the things in the little shop you told me of," the Egyptian continued, addressing the mistress of the house, "but the horrid man would not give them to me until he had seen my money.

  11. At those times she could not derive any satisfaction even from her children--her only refuge from weeping herself into a sick-headache was to go to town and shop exhaustingly.

  12. Her avoidance of George Sutton was as nothing to his desire of avoiding her; he dived with surreptitious haste down side streets when he saw her coming, or disappeared within shop doorways.

  13. There is a keeper of a great shop in London who is known as the Universal Provider.

  14. The revelry sounded like the fighting of two mobs amid a rain of missiles and crash of shop windows.

  15. The letters on the sign over the tinsmith's shop on the corner shone redly like great clots of blood.

  16. It was rather hard, he thought, to have to spoil his clothes in repair-shop work of that kind, especially as he was paid nothing for it, and had to find himself.

  17. There may be a shop of some kind, also, but memory retains no such impression.

  18. The two prettiest young ladies whom I have seen in England came into the shop and ate cakes while we were there.

  19. Emerging into a wider street, at a spot somewhat more elevated than other parts of the town, we went into a shop to buy some Royal Shrewsbury cakes, which we had seen advertised at several shop windows.

  20. Arriving at his shop again, he went out to procure the money, and soon returned with it.

  21. So home, buying a barrel of oysters at my old oyster-woman's, in Gracious Street, but over the way to where she kept her shop before.

  22. The railroad was at that time being built through to Eureka and Mr. Labudde therefore erected a shop at Eureka Junction, conducting business there for four or five years.

  23. He now has a splendidly equipped wagon shop and is doing a business of gratifying proportions.

  24. The father was a wagon maker by trade and conducted a shop in Wayne county until 1865, when he removed to Mendon, Michigan, where he carried on business as a wagon maker for many years.

  25. That Mr. Anderson has prospered as the years have gone by is indicated in the fact that he is now the owner of an attractive residence and a substantial shop in Walla Walla, where he is living.

  26. In 1873 the first school district on the Pataha Flat was organized by a meeting of the settlers at the blacksmith shop belonging to George Gill.

  27. As a youth he learned the machinist's trade, which he has since followed, and in 1909 he came to Dayton, purchasing the machine shop which he now conducts.

  28. Hagy's boot and shoe shop and the dry goods store belonging to S.

  29. During the mining excitement of 1860, Mr. Schank went to Lewiston, Idaho, and opened a harness and saddlery shop and did a thriving business.

  30. Why did Mother Muggins of the shop let the goody side of her scales of justice drop the lower by one lollipop for Bill than for any other lad, and exempt him by unwonted smiles from her general anathema on the urchin race?

  31. He thought that he turned back into the shop and went up to the counter.

  32. I got plenty of employment, weaving mats and baskets for a shop in the town, and Ben worked at the factory.

  33. I will come and clean out the shop for you at the end of the week, but I am very busy to-day.

  34. I am so sorry; but when I got to the shop I couldn't remember whether it was a quarter of a yard of ribbon or three-quarters that you wanted for the doll's hat.

  35. He dreamt that he was in the bookseller's shop hunting among the shelves for some scraps of paper on which he had written.

  36. The glance with which she comprehended the renovated shop was bitter with contempt.

  37. During Margaret's régime, as I say, the shop had thrived.

  38. I suspect he suffered the shock of his placid life when he found Sam absent and the shop in the care of this spruce, well set-up young man.

  39. Now the little shop had been far distanced by the competition of Sothern and Lee.

  40. After a time, to a tune of pounding feet, Tracey Tanner pranced into the shop with all the graceful abandon of a young elephant feeling its oats.

  41. By that time the shop had begun to show signs of neglect; its stock was decimated, its trade likewise.

  42. He flung himself out of the shop with a barked: "Good-day!

  43. They'd swing to this shop in a minute, just on account of that.

  44. Try and get into the dry-goods emporium if you can: the girls all shop there.

  45. Homer's heroes must hoe potatoes and keep shop before the higher civilization of the race can be reached.

  46. At last I saw a jewellery shop and my Landsmann's name over it.

  47. He had had the start of her by five years, for she had been brought from Poland to marry him, through the good offices of a friend of hers who saw in her little dowry the nucleus of a thriving shop in a thriving port.

  48. But in spite of the fish,' said Mr. Mendel, 'she served in the shop while he was at synagogue.

  49. Then the shop closed; the shutters that should have honoured the Sabbath now depressed the Tuesday.

  50. Accordingly the pompous treasurer of the synagogue strode into the notorious shop on the Sabbath itself, catching Simeon Samuels red-handed.

  51. Home and shop became his only realm, and his autocratic tendencies grew the stronger by compression.

  52. Either Simeon Samuels shuts up shop or you do.

  53. Considering every other shop in the town is open on Shabbos, one more or less can't upset them.

  54. A man who keeps his shop open on Sabbath is capable of anything,' said the lanky Mendel, gloomily sweeping in his winnings.

  55. And Simeon Samuels was equipped not only with capital and enterprise--the showy plate-glass front of his shop revealed an enticing miscellany--but with blasphemy and bravado.

  56. In the living-rooms she did cooking and washing and sweeping; in the shop above, whenever a hand fell sick or work fell heavy, she was utilized to make buttonholes, school hours or no school hours.

  57. Simeon Samuels, aware of a fly hovering on the purlieus of his web, issued from its centre, as the Parnass turned his back on the shop and gazed musingly at the sky.

  58. Yet as his now trusting co-religionists passed his shop on their homeward walk--and many a pair of legs went considerably out of its way to do so--their eyes became again saucers of horror and amaze.

  59. For shop doors and others, where a short contact only is required, and this only when the door is opened, a contact such as shown at Fig.

  60. He's made me feel as I'd have had less of an uphill pull if I'd gone to engineering school, and he says I've made him feel as if he never had enough shop practice.

  61. I get a job in a machine shop where a fellow named John Moore has a machine next to mine.

  62. He purposely continued the search for a new business as long as possible, but finally bought an apothecary's shop in Swinemünde.

  63. He received for the apothecary's shop double the original purchase price, and saw himself thereby all at once put in a position to satisfy his creditors, who were at the same time his accusers.

  64. In the afternoon Effi went down town, as far as the market square, and there entered the apothecary's shop and asked for a bottle of sal volatile.

  65. He was so much the more warmly received by the widow Geisler, who, inasmuch as her husband had died the previous year, desired to sell her apothecary's shop as quickly as possible.

  66. In his tailor shop he makes the stag a coat that lasts a hundred years.

  67. There was a butcher's shop in the building, and that did not suit my fancy.

  68. It is really remarkable what matches these pert shop girls make nowadays.

  69. You see the shop closes on Thursday afternoon, and it's Fanny's only free day.

  70. Just the sort of girl you'd expect to find in a draper's shop in Brixton.

  71. Sure you cannot be Thomas Kerr, whose shop is in Saint Mary's Wynd?

  72. His independence secured him from drudging at a task, and labouring upon a barren topic; he never exchanged praise for money, nor opened a shop of condolence or congratulation.

  73. Whitehead, who hung loose upon society, skulked and escaped, but Dodsley's shop and family made his appearance necessary.

  74. It is allowed that he grew rich by trade; but whether in a shop or on the Exchange was never discovered till Mr. Tyers told, on the authority of Mrs. Racket, that he was a linendraper in the Strand.

  75. I sent Maria, with half a sovereign, to a savoury cook-shop where they sold fowls and hams and all sorts of nice things ready for table, and she brought back a supper fit for a prince.

  76. Being still not quite as hungry as Tom desired, we strolled around the block and looked in at the shop windows--the florists, the milliners, the photographers.

  77. For several days, he frequented the shop of the jeweller with the hope of gaining a view of the lady.

  78. He waited to hear no more, but, stepping hastily into the street, followed the lady at a respectful distance; but never losing sight of her for a moment till she entered her home two streets distant from the shop of the jeweller.

  79. Before the gentleman left the shop he paid for the ring, and placed it in his pocket.

  80. I have no knowledge of her name or residence; but if you were in my shop when she chanced to pass here I could easily point her out to you in the street.

  81. The windows of Bill Lainey's hotel and Piney Jackson's blacksmith shop were banked in drifting smoke through which red tongues of flame flashed at intervals.

  82. The rifles in the hotel and blacksmith shop chattered like mad.

  83. The arithmetic lessons come in concrete shop problems.

  84. Hardly a week passes without some improvement being made somewhere in machine or process, and sometimes this is made in defiance of what is called "the best shop practice.

  85. The shop is the mainstay of all the finer things which the home represents.

  86. In a little dark shop on a side street an old man had laboured for years making axe handles.

  87. An adequately equipped repair shop which has in it the right machinery for every necessary repair and adjustment.

  88. A day's work means more than merely being "on duty" at the shop for the required number of hours.

  89. It will be recalled that when a study was made of shop methods, so that the workmen might be taught to produce with less useless motion and fatigue, it was most opposed by the workmen themselves.

  90. When I left school at seventeen and became an apprentice in the machine shop of the Drydock Engine Works I was all but given up for lost.

  91. The men will have plots of ground or farms as well as their jobs in the factory, and these can be scattered over fifteen or twenty miles surrounding--for of course nowadays the workingman can come to the shop in an automobile.

  92. The men in the hospital could do it just as well as the men in the shop and they were able to receive their regular wages.

  93. I followed in the English and American magazines which we got in the shop the development of the engine and most particularly the hints of the possible replacement of the illuminating gas fuel by a gas formed by the vaporization of gasoline.

  94. I built three cars in all in my home shop and all of them ran for years in Detroit.

  95. There is something just as sacred about a shop that employs thousands of men as there is about a home.

  96. Just the same," he added to his wife, when Nan had left the room, "I have written to that machine shop boss in Chicago that I am ready to come to work any day he may send for me.

  97. The manager of that big shop had hired a gang of ice cutters a few days before, and had filled his own private icehouse.

  98. Nan, the next morning, when she came out of the fur shop to which he had taken her.

  99. A half-promise of work from the Chicago machine shop boss had reached Mr. Sherwood that morning by post.


  100. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agency; atelier; barbershop; bench; betray; boutique; branch; browse; cabinet; cant; chambers; chancellery; closet; company; concern; concession; consulate; cooperative; corporation; countinghouse; den; desk; embassy; emporium; establishment; facility; firm; headquarters; house; installation; institution; legation; loft; market; mart; mill; office; organization; outlet; parlor; plant; post; salon; sell; shop; store; studio; study; supermarket; sweatshop; warehouse; workbench; workhouse; workroom; workshop


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    shop girl; shop window