Sentence examples for shopkeeper for from inspiring English sources
With her mid-Atlantic accent, she was once mistaken by a London shopkeeper for English.
It could be a person you see in your neighbourhood, a shopkeeper, for example.
The New Yorker, July 27 , 1929P. 7 Lady asks Jewish shopkeeper for Tintex.
Watching that footage now, you're struck by how much of the material – Palin's recurrent role as a surreally incompetent shopkeeper, for instance – anticipates Monty Python.
After waiting patiently in line, he asks the shopkeeper for a container of cooking oil, a jug of milk and, a quarter kilo of coffee.
The owner, Anthony Zito, has become something of a local icon, the kind of neighborhood shopkeeper for which the Village was once famous.
By renovating buildings on Main Street and renting them to shopkeepers for $1 a year, Mr. Kurtis fueled Sedan's rebirth.
The trophy offered no other clues, and the sight had mystified some neighbors and shopkeepers for years.
Mr. Caldwell grew up in Newark, and when he was working the streets, he would blend into the crowd, cajoling drug dealers and shopkeepers for information.
These officers thus drew a line not between honesty and corruption but between "honest" graft (cash from shopkeepers for overlooking violations) and "dishonest" graft (extortion or protection money).
A "proletarianization" of the middle class was begun & during the ensuing months steadily gained momentum; shopkeepers, for instance, were subjected to confiscatory taxes calculated to convert them into factory workers.
