Sentence examples for few parlors from inspiring English sources

He found a few parlors in New York City willing to help him out, but they all wanted to charge a "handling fee".

His parents were refugees from Vietnam; his mother started a few nail parlors.

And while a few beauty parlors and taxis still hang signs proclaiming themselves as "disinfected," no one wears masks anymore.

But for a city with remarkably few beauty parlors and where "moda," the Arabic term for fashion, is mostly limited to polyester-inflected bureaucratic chic or the gaudy plumage of the superfluously made-up Lebanese starlet, the streets of downtown Cairo have become a site of astonishing sartorial improvisation unseen since the days of Egypt's pre-Socialist, Greek-Italian-Levantine, pan-Med chic.

Furthermore, he said, the entire force at police station H should be transferred to what he called "lower income stations," presumably in districts with fewer massage parlors.

One friend complained that the noodles weren't long enough — impeding our ability to loudly and approvingly slurp them — but in a city with as few high-quality soba parlors as New York, it's an easy enough shortcoming to overlook.

Along the way Mr. Cohen finds some of history's odder true stories and throws in a few bits from his parlor show.

With the development of smaller, cheaper stereoscopes, easier photographic printing, and even stereo parlors, there were few people in Europe or America who did not have access to stereo viewers by the end of the nineteenth century.

When Paul's Kitchen opened in 1946, then known as Paul's Cafe, it was just one of many Chinese restaurants, grocery stores and gambling parlors extending a few blocks in both directions from the City Market, Los Angeles' largest produce market.

Once inside, we were led up a few steps to the inn parlor.

In the morning, he sits in the kitchen at a manual typewriter and composes press releases for his clients — a few restaurants, a local beauty parlor, and a Palm Beach bandleader named Dick Prentiss.