Example Sentences

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And shoppers ducked into the small stores that share a main street with a 17th-century merchant’s house and an 18th-century town hall building that once served as a customhouse.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2018

At his rolltop desk in a musty corner of the wood-and-adobe Managua customhouse, Irving A. Lindberg did an honest and efficient job.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the customhouse in Ciudad Juarez, 62 inspectors were fired, 25 other officials suspended, and 76 employees either fined or transferred.

From Time Magazine Archive

Henceforth, decreed the French government, every Japanese recorder would have to clear a tiny ten-man customhouse in landlocked Poitiers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whatever duty the merchant pays to the customhouse, he adds the amount to the price of his goods, so that the consumer actually pays the tax.

From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by Dodge, David Low