Example Sentences

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It was in this spirit that she asked the store’s previous owner, Roger Page, if his enthusiasm for shopkeeping might be waning in 2015.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

However, if you want to add some less conventional titles to your collection, family-first dungeon crawler Children of Morta, and the shopkeeping hack-and-slash simulator, Moonlighter, are also discounted right now.

From The Verge • Aug. 8, 2022

To his shopkeeping friend who can’t wait to bolt to Europe, there’s no future of any kind in Gaza.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Partly their differences were regional, the merchant and shopkeeping economy of Philadelphia vs. the plantation economy of Virginia.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

The episode of her shopkeeping experience is admirably told, and affords the author abundant and varied opportunity of exercising her gift of drawing character.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir