Example Sentences

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“I am not planning to go to that one unless I am shopping at the mall.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

“I am shopping less,” Dalencia said, noting she will spend about $700 for holiday gifts this year, one-third less than last year.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2022

I have been known to wear university-branded clothing when I am shopping for real estate, hopefully drawing on the cultural value of colleges and students to counter any assumptions of me as buyer.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2013

So, with the guidance of my cardiologist, Dr. Robert Ascheim, I am shopping in the experimental boutiques.

From Time Magazine Archive

Halicarnassus is absurd and mulish in many things, but he knows I will not be hampered with him when I am shopping, and he obeys the smallest hint, and stops outside.

From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail