Sentence examples for ordinary shop from inspiring English sources

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People visit flea markets because they are looking for bargains, or for items that they would not necessarily find in an ordinary shop.

In the second volume of "Remembrance of Things Past," the Narrator asks his beloved, Albertine, "Is there a vast difference between a Callot dress and one from any ordinary shop?" Her response: "Why, an enormous difference, my little man!" A "Callot dress" is one that was made by the Paris haute-couture house Callot Soeurs — Callot Sisters.

Exchanging a daily feast of ordinary shop meat for more vegetables and an occasional venison steak would be a difficult choice for most; but if we could imaginatively close the distance between ourselves and the world's impoverished people and the environment that suffer as a result of our food choices, it might be possible.

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Ordinary shop-looting, routine during the political uprisings, was no comparison.

This was no ordinary shopping mall.

Needless to say, this is no ordinary shopping centre.

Most of the acid that is used in the attacks is purchased with ease from ordinary shops.

Shoppers, mainly from poorer parts of the city, formed orderly queues to buy food at officially regulated prices something that is often impossible in ordinary shops.

True, Mar?" "Yeah," said Brando, beginning to rip open the gifts, which, like most Japanese packages — even mundane purchases from very ordinary shops — were beautifully wrapped.

A store manager recalled that it was an ordinary shopping trip, saying that the boy was outgoing and energetic, his little sister was cute and their grandmother was "like any grandmother — she bought them anything they wanted".

The pressure this has put on the availability of retail space has pushed up rents in some places, forcing ordinary shops out of business and stirring discontent.The mules are usually easy to differentiate from other mainland shoppers.

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