Sentence examples for box of a shop from inspiring English sources
Just around the corner is Auto (805 Washington Street, near Horatio Street), a small white box of a shop with lots of colorful merchandise.
But there she was at the gala opening of Dalyah on Thursday night, as about 185 friends and fashion veterans took turns squeezing into her tiny jewel box of a shop.
Even after that, though, there was always the high street to explore, with its ribbon of colourful shop fronts: my personal favourites, in those days, being the Page One bookshop or Johnson's Records – a little box of a shop whose riches seemed infinite to me, although what it stocked was only a tiny fraction of what you can nowadays download from iTunes without getting up from your chair.
Diptyque has the most precious jewel box of a shop, with a silvered ceiling and chandelier made of Diptyque glass candle vessels.
The jewel box of a shop at Fashion Island is decorated in purple and silver tones, and includes four mirrored vanity table stations for makeup applications plus a photo booth where you can record and share images of your new look.
In the same shopping strip a few doors away, a shoe box of a pizza shop was paying more than he was for less than a third of his space.
After working in top kitchens around the city, they drew attention in 2010 with Torrisi Italian Specialties, a jewel box of a sandwich shop on Mulberry Street that turned, after the sun went down, into a tasting-menu showcase for their more refined culinary aspirations.
4 P.M. Finish the afternoon sipping hot chocolate from a porcelain cup at Lily O'Brien's Chocolate Café, 36 West 40th Street, (212) 575-0631, a jewel box of an Irish candy shop.
It seems smaller than a typical Starbucks (the minimum footprint is 5,130 square feet) and it can seem a little disconcerting to drive up to a black box to get coffee instead of a shop where people are sitting at tables inside.
And further accidents – a dropped box of fish, a dropped shopping basket (that's pretty much the same, isn't it?), a bump on the head and a tumble down the stairs – are reminders that although the sit may be lovely, the com of Doc Martin isn't the most sophisticated or subtle.
Hell, 20 minutes looking into the eyes of anyone living in Arnos Grove, working in Beckton, bleeding themselves dry in order to plunge headfirst into a box of chips in a Morden chicken shop, would be enough to convince the first alien to reach planet Earth that London was a shithole.
