How to Use department store in a Sentence

department store

noun
  • The mannequins in the old department store stand naked.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The elves made their debut in the 1950s in the windows of Shillito's department store.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The department store opened its first small-format store in 2020 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Mabel asked, on our way to work at the department store, bits of snow catching in her hair.
    Colin Heasley, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The department store building was demolished in 2014 to make way for the Whole Foods store.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Carroll has claimed that around 30 years ago in a department store, Trump raped her.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The case stemmed from what Carroll described as a chance encounter with Trump at a high-end department store in the mid-1990s.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 28 June 2023
  • Young soon dropped out of school and took a job in the appliance department of a department store.
    Stuart Silverstein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Go car spotting in the Knightsbridge area around the pricey Harrods department store.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The Italian fashion house just opened a chic new pop-up cafe in Harrods department store.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Yesterday, my husband and I went to a department store to buy a pair of slippers for him.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The episode shows Raven getting passed over for a job in a department store in favor of her white friend Chelsea (Anneliese van der Pol).
    Liv Facey, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The websites of big department stores like Nordstrom or Saks are better.
    Ian Salisbury, wsj.com, 22 Nov. 2023
  • When first popularized, it was worn by men and women alike, but in the 1920s, U.S. department stores claimed blue for boys and pink for girls.
    Karena Phan, Fortune, 21 July 2023
  • Macy’s and the entire department store sector have been hit on all sides in recent years.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • What to Do Mitsukoshi Ginza This is a high-end department store with an amazing food hall.
    Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • While the brand is in just about every major department store, the best place to buy Samsonite luggage is on Amazon.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The marble hall featured fifty-odd Christmas trees, like the entrance of a fancy department store.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • An old Northgate Mall department store will have a second life.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Her bicycle was found leaning against a wall of the Bacon’s department store.
    Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2023
  • Right now the department store has a wonderful walking shoe selection that runs the style gamut.
    Sara Coughlin, SELF, 15 Mar. 2023
  • As an early birthday treat, the teen took a trip to the Prada Caffè in London's Harrods department store.
    Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The New York fashion plate knows the department store, a relatively new institution in New York that opened in 2019, like the back of her hand.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2022
  • He was arrested for stealing from a London department store and spent four months in prison.
    Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Over the next three months, more pop-ins will arrive at select LV stores, department stores, and other locations.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Over the years, the building was used for livestock events, a department store and even as an airplane factory during World War II.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Even more telling was the high-end department store Nordstrom’s decision to close its flagship store there in August after a 35-year run.
    John Rennie Short, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2023
  • According to police, Eisenberg had just left the Kohl’s department store and had stepped off a curb when three youths on bicycles rode up.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Three department stores in Bournemouth closed, and the exit of big retail chains has left several streets with empty storefronts.
    Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 12 July 2023

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