Sentence examples for store was picked from inspiring English sources

Caught unawares by the sudden surge in interest, the town at first appeared to buckle under the strain: the few restaurants were running short on food, the corner store was picked dry by the end of each weekend, and the mobile network crashed.

The racks weren't exactly bursting, so maybe it was just that our Gap Kids store was picked over, leaving behind only the nauseatingly cute t-shirts for girls and obsessively cool ones for boys.

But my furniture store is picking up steam, and we are doing more business on the Internet because of our unusual products and the attention we regularly get from home design magazines.

Now boutiques and department stores are picking up on the ethical shopping movement.

As one example of an idea not transmitted via UNIX,, the one-level store programming interface was picked up directly from Multics by Prime Computer Primos, Stratus Computer VOS, Apollo Domain, Nippon Telephone DIPS, IBM TSS/360, System 38, and AIX, and Livermore's Amber for the S-1.

After her book begin flying off toy store shelves, it was picked up by publisher Frederick R. Warne and made into the beautiful full color edition that is still in print today.

One colony for each observed morphology was picked up, stored in Cystine Triptose Agar (Difco) and sent to the reference microbiology laboratory in Italy, where they were checked for purity and stored at −70°C in glycerol 20% until examined.

Each first 1-cm long segment after the pyloric valve was picked and stored in buffered formaldehyde solution for further histology processing.

Items scanned in our hometown store would be picked and packed for us, with free delivery to a store near the NYU campus by move-in day.

The video store had been picked bare.

But while thumbing through a CD rack at the Virgin store, they were picked up by Lieutenant Rossi's uniformed police officers and held (it is called noncriminal detention) for two hours at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts on West 49th Street near 10th Avenue, a kind of Central Booking for truants.