Sentence examples for Tuck shop from inspiring English sources

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Tuck shop

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A shop selling confectionery, especially one in or near a school.

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Tuck shop, civvies, mufty, tufty, matron.

Immure him in Eton's tuck shop for the next 20 years?

The container housing Nonto Tuck Shop (a tuck shop is akin to a convenience store) was in fact given to Soweto's Nanto primary school in the mid-1990's by local Coca-Cola officials.

It was 1991, and we were in the tuck shop at the private Forest school in Snaresbrook, east London.

Wide-eyed and pleading in the witness box, he adopted the manner of a schoolboy caught stealing from the tuck shop.

One of the best is the Alternative Tuck Shop on Holywell Street, where you can sample an exotic ciabatta with a staggering array of fillings.

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A swimming pool, chicken run and tuck-shop were all built under the guise of improving security.The incident proved to be a media sensation and the riot police did not in the end try to evict the EFF.

Used to run a heavily subsidised tuck-shop selling one penny chews... Branson had the complete penny chew monopoly, and a lot of boys at that school suffered as a result.

Yet they also paid for the construction of a swimming pool (ostensibly to provide a water reservoir for emergency firefighting), a chicken coop, a tuck-shop and an amphitheatre.On January 26th came the resignation of Vas Soni, the head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), a corruption watchdog examining whether Mr Zuma had benefited illegally from state spending on his home.

Camera fodder: Alongside regular tuck-shop fare and a selection of teas and coffees (all Fair Trade), the Duke's boasts an array of fine foods, including a selection of home-made cakes with flavours like Tunisian orange and Sussex winter plum vying for your attention.

Off a blood-red road that bleeds away from the small driver's-respite town of Baker in the middle of the Mojave desert--a bizarre little town that boasts an Alien Fresh Jerky tuck-shop and the Mad Greek restaurant, eye-popping in a dazzling skirt of chalk-white ancient-Greek replica statues--a narrow dirt trail winds into the desert.

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