shopkeeper
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- shopkeeping noun
Etymology
Origin of shopkeeper
Example Sentences
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Just across the street at the Ali Bin Ali grocery store, a shopkeeper was more apprehensive as he arranged boxes of Iranian dates and nuts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Pakistani shopkeeper Ehsanullah Himmat, 21, had travelled to the southern Afghan city of Kandahar with his family to attend a relative's wedding, but "now we cannot go back to our home", he said.
From Barron's • Jan. 4, 2026
“It was Ahmed the bystander who helped disarm one of the shooters,” said Latiph, referring to Ahmed el Ahmed, a shopkeeper who threw himself at one of the suspects on Sunday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
"The experience haunts me. It gives me nightmares," he said as he sat in his all-black outfit at the camp, unsure whether he would ever return to his ordinary life as a shopkeeper.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
The shopkeeper told Ridgeway that homesteaders had started the fire while trying to clear some scrub.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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