Sentence examples for held shop from inspiring English sources

A quality control inspector, he held shop floor jobs, then salaried, necktie jobs, then factory jobs again.

Marathon Technologies, a privately held shop in Boxborough, Massachusetts, has fashioned a Windows-based system that uses run-of-the-mill servers from Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, arranging them in a redundant quartet that runs 99.999% of the time (the "five nines" of reliability required by big corporate sites).

Marathon Technologies, a privately held shop in Boxborough, Mass., has fashioned a Windows-based system that uses run-of-the-mill servers from Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, arranging them in a redundant quartet that runs 99.999% of the time, the "five nines" reliability required by big corporate sites.

Media group E.W. Scripps, which last year spent $570 million in cash to buy online comparison shopping service Shopzilla, has struck again with a $366 million deal to buy uSwitch, a privately held shopping site in Britain.

The citizens of Denmark's second city respect each other – grannies hold shop doors open for gangs of teenagers; cyclists indicate with hand signals – but not the same gestures you see on London's streets.

And although department stores like Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman have been holding shopping parties for years, today's events are different.

Then there were Donald and Terri Beak and their two children, who appeared relatively unconcerned as they wandered around the TKTS plaza, holding shopping bags from the M&M store.

Mirones grew up in the business; by the age of seven, he was making deliveries around downtown Brooklyn, holding shopping bags at shoulder level to keep them from dragging on the pavement.

Ms. Wintour's appearance in a Queens shopping mall to kick off the event was a gesture to show that the idea of holding shopping parties during a recession was not, in her words, "elitist".

LOS ANGELES--Refrigerator magnets are best known for holding shopping lists and old postcards onto refrigerator doors.

Wal-Mart has made the elevators to the parking lot big enough to hold shopping carts and has radically increased the number of cash registers.