ten-cent store
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ten-cent store
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
She was going to work in a ten-cent store and she did not want to work there.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
That," I said humoring him, for I knew something great would be evolved from his wonderful brain, "is a ball of red twine I bought at the ten-cent store.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Shirley brought home some packages of seeds she got at the ten-cent store, and there was great excitement planting them.
From The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
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