Example Sentences

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Most, as indexers, are just blindly buying — assuming that somebody else is minding the store.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025

But kids understand that no one is minding the store.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

No one is tending the fields, no one is minding the old shops, no one is clearing away the furniture and torn clothing scattered in the ruins of abandoned homes.

From Reuters • Jul. 22, 2022

The latest Taper botch, a set of one-acts by Ethan Coen inaptly titled “A Play Is a Poem,” once again had me wondering: Who beyond Ritchie is minding the literary store?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2019

"Lucia is minding the soup-kettle," gasped Maria Luisa, as she puffed up stairs behind her thin and active husband.

From Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)