Sentence examples for were shops from inspiring English sources
verb
To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
- I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
There were shops that had the music.
"There were shops, lots of people … Now in places there's 25% unemployment".
And then yesterday there were shops open — not all or even many but enough to give the less affected neighborhoods an almost normal appearance.
The rest of the buildings were shops and lodging houses, and there was a great profusion of cafés, before which neon signs, red and yellow and peacock blue, screamed their messages and, incidentally, served as illumination for the road.
Although their main targets were shops and supermarkets, some gun-toting Chavez supporters roared into the nicer streets on motorbikes, sparking panic.In this section A region prays it will not slide down Argentina's slope Middle-class and armed Mary Robinson comes calling To bless, or not to bless?
And that did cause a problem but it still meant there were shops, it still meant there was footfall on the High Street," she said.
There were shopping sprees and fancy meals.
We were shopping for clothing.
"We were shopping in Reading.
Clubs were shopping for them".
"Customers are shopping very differently to the way they were shopping even a year ago.
