Sentence examples for former dime from inspiring English sources

Long lines, lasting three hours in some cases, greeted customers trying to tap their funds at a former Dime Savings Bank.

The second story he tells happened in the late 1960s, in a former dime store in Venice, Calif., the studio where he first began creating the ethereal, experiential work that made him a founder of the so-called Light and Space movement, along with fellow West Coast artists like Robert Irwin, James Turrell and Mary Corse.

"You always hope you can get out," says the former dime-a-dance gal, Marie, to the aging gangster, Roy Earle.

Founded in 1909, it was once a subsidiary of F.W. Woolworths, the former American dime store chain.

A: After being fired, Hot Shot takes his friends out on the town and runs up $16,000 in charges on his former company's dime.

By this time, Owens and Lamy were living in a former five-and-dime storefront on Las Palmas, a gritty side street off Hollywood Boulevard.

A former five-and-dime is now the Blue Thistle Boutique, which sells women's clothing, and a popular Italian restaurant, the Timeless Destination.

The storm clouds outside broke in time for the wedding party to march to bagpipes for four blocks to the Kress Building, a former five-and-dime that now houses offices and an urbane rooftop party space with its own boccie court.

Midsize towns were for tracking down the former supermarket or five-and-dime that had been converted to an antiques mall and perusing the stalls filled with chipped Fiestaware and old Nehi bottles and local yearbooks redolent of mildew.

But his occasionally abrasive style, coupled with his high salary and use of Mr. Cianci as the personification of municipal corruption, has made him a favored target of the former mayor, who relies on dime-dropping disaffected officers; his "birdies," he calls them.

The Cardinals did sign former Patriot/Falcon James Sanders, ostensibly to boost their dime, and maybe even nickel, packages.