Sentence examples for old receipt from inspiring English sources

(Although if you're a true thrift-seeker, you'd be better off writing the list on a piece of old receipt, rather than wasting expensive printer ink and fresh paper!) To find out if there's a Lidl or Aldi in your area, visit their websites – lidl.co.uk and aldi.co.uk.

The list might also be easily mistaken for an old receipt in grandma's purse and discard or ignored.

You just expect email to exist when you need it, whether you're firing off a quick "thanks" to a colleague or searching for an old receipt for an online purchase.

Instead of sitting at my computer or opening my journal or grabbing an old receipt on which to scribble notes, I had the following routine: watch TV, surf the Internet, stare into space, repeat.

The glove compartment only contains old receipts.

Berger creates the backgrounds of her collages using faded old receipts and other ephemera.

When I visited him there, a fishbowl on the living room table seemed to be filled with matchbooks and old receipts; a few minutes later, it stirred, alarmingly.

Old receipts, swollen notebooks, outgrown baby clothes; ugly cushions from homes that we no longer own: the ascent of meaning and memory over clean lines and good taste.

Chris Otto runs a Web site called Papergreat, which analyzes abandoned bits of paper including old receipts, like a 1907 receipt from L.B. Hantz, a repairman in York, Pa., that included detailed drawings of a furnace and a stove.

I put the scrap of paper into my back pocket that night and kept it there, or migrated it to other back pockets, for years, with my credit cards and old receipts.

Friends and neighbours smile politely as he goes about proving Sunita's innocence with mournful laments, hugging his children a bit too tightly, swooping down the ginnels with smoking candles, constructing vast diagrams on scraps of chip paper and old receipts.