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available or taking place within a supermarket or other large shopin-store banking facilities

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How to use in-store in a sentence

This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
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Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
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Here they are semi-touching at a grocery store; she likes kombucha.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
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Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
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This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
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So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.
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Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison

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in store

In readiness, in preparation for future use, as in I'm keeping several videos in store for your visit. Edmund Spenser used this idiom in The Faerie Queene (1590): “Then for her son . . . In her own hand the crown she kept in store.” [1300s]

in store for. Forthcoming for, awaiting, as in There's trouble in store for you. [Mid-1600s]

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