Sentence examples for ordinary shopping from inspiring English sources

This was no ordinary shopping mall.

Needless to say, this is no ordinary shopping centre.

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 local chain has quietly begun rolling out the gray carpet in its 18 Manhattan and Westchester stores: It is a vinyl-backed commercial nylon broadloom carpet that lends a wall-to-wall plushness to an otherwise ordinary shopping expedition.

A search of his belongings revealed that his briefcase contained a "booster bag" — an ordinary shopping bag lined, inside and out, with tinfoil affixed with duct tape, a tactic used by boosters to defeat the electronic alarm systems at store exits.

The actress Marisa Tomei, who has several times bought awards-show gowns or after-party dresses from Decades just hours before an event, told me that Silver's past in show business makes the act of buying something from him feel more creative than ordinary shopping.

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

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.

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

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.