shop
noun
a retail store, especially a small one.
shopped
Example Sentences
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“An entire generation of consumers has shopped and purchased air travel under this system, and we believe a change could be extremely disruptive,” Southwest wrote in its request.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Deciding to purchase a CD is just a conceptual first step, because CDs need to be shopped.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
Shawna May shopped at the Bed Bath & Beyond store near her home in Middleton, N.Y., so often that the employees knew her by name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Over the past two years, the organization openly shopped for what it called a new “steward”—language that left the door open to a sale.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
Perhaps he was vegan and distrusted large corporations and shopped only at farmers’ markets and brought his own organic juice from home.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
