Sentence examples for assortment of shops from inspiring English sources

ONE of the draws of SoSoHo is its motley assortment of shops, from fashion and high design to skateboards and scooters.

Just down the road, the artist community of Madrid offers an assortment of shops and galleries, as well as one of the state's oldest saloons, the Mineshaft Tavern.

But Tampa International gets a few votes beside my own -- "beautifully laid out, neat and clean, spotlessly maintained with a nice assortment of shops and restaurants," says one writer.

Also in that category was a woman donning chains, cobwebs, clutching an assortment of shopping bags, including a white crisp one from Chanel, and wrapped presents, and a book with the big, bold title: "Dow 36,000".

Although upscale boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants abound within a 10-minute walk from 199 Bowery, few such amenities are to be found in the immediate area, which consists of lighting and restaurant supply companies and an assortment of smaller shops that look as if they have seen better days.

Mixed in with vintage grocery stores, antique farms and a covered bridge is a comfortable assortment of coffee shops, art stores and fun boutiques with an upscale but rural tinge, like the Vermont Flannel Company (20 Central Street, 802-476-5226; www.vermontflannel.com), which sells everything from nightshirts to red and green tartan flannel underwear.

Gone are the days when there was one major chain supermarket, a few fast food joints, a couple of ethnic restaurants, and, an assortment of small shops catering to a mostly residential suburb.

A short walk down Washington is an assortment of restaurants and shops.

You'll also find an assortment of neighborhood coffee shops, Chinese takeout operations and Indian restaurants; sadly, I was not impressed by any of these.

A small nonprofit in the boys' neighborhood of Shoula — a dusty assortment of auto repair shops, emblems to Shiite clerics and scavenging flocks of sheep — has donated prosthetic limbs and crutches to the friends, though Sadiq and Mohammed say the ill-fitting limbs rub their flesh raw.

That worries some people here, who fear that Pinedale could emulate Jackson, a resort town 80 miles to the northwest that has changed -- some might say eroded -- from Western to faux Western, with an expanding assortment of upscale hotels, shops and restaurants.