How to Use bodega in a Sentence

bodega

noun

• Sometimes bodega staff will adopt a kitten from a litter in need of homes.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• The guy at your local bodega will, in a pinch, sign for your UPS package or hold keys for your friend.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
• In apartments, a Bodega saves residents a trip to their local bodega.
  — Chris Gayomali, GQ, 13 Sep. 2017
• The dealer then re-entered the bodega, according to the police account.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• There are plenty of condoms that feel better than a bodega three-pack, and plenty of resources just waiting to help you with an upgrade.
  — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 1 Nov. 2017
• Still, not every new firm is equal—some entrepreneurs want to create the next Tesla, not open another bodega.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• There were stiletto tape dispensers, calendars of goats standing in trees, and eggnog that had probably been shelved at the corner bodega for decades.
  — Vogue, 15 Dec. 2017
• The mere thought of hanging out by the nearest bodega and flinging endless quips until the wee hours of the morning in Harlem no longer excites him.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2017
• Polar’s products -- everything from beer and soft drinks to rice and yogurt -- are some of the few brands that regularly show up at store shelves and bodegas.
  — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Montserrat Coca, the owner of a bodega who only will sell wines produced in Catalonia, said.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
• Guests — many with smartphones held high — entered through a hidden door in what was meant to be a Swedish bodega stocked with Ikea beverages, snacks and home products.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024
• William Cooper Howell leads the cast as the rapping bodega owner Usnavi, the son of Dominican immigrants.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The labor department opened an investigation into the bodega’s staff and the fire marshal’s office opened an investigation on fire code issues, police said.
  — Sandra Gomez-Aceves, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The bodega down the street from me has the best salads.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• The man works in a bodega across the street from the collapse site.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2023
• The guy who runs the bodega across the street from my apartment.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2018
• The bodega and the salon are the heart of the neighborhood.
  — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 14 June 2021
• The bodega will stock items like beer, wine and snacks.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2021
• At the heart of the movie is a bodega owner who dreams for (and sings about) a better life.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 20 Mar. 2023
• Wear them on your next trip to Europe, or with a pair of chinos to the bodega down the street.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2024
• The graffiti has been scrubbed off the bodega on my block.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 10 June 2020
• Cheeses, tinned fish and other items from the bodega will be featured on the bar menu.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2021
• So the culture’s always in the bodega, on the corners, in the hoop earrings, in the baby hairs.
  — Shirley Ju, Variety, 5 May 2022
• What do the Yale Club, Pret a Manger and your corner bodega have in common?
  — WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
• At the corner bodega where neighbors talk about how there is no work and no way to pay the bills.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• There’s something about street cats and bodega cats and the survival instinct side of the city.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
• The new space will feature a bottle shop, wine bar and bodega.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2021
• As before, Thamee sells spices and some of its condiments from a small bodega near the door.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• These bodegas, as the Spanish call them, are what draw tourists to Ribera del Duero.
  — Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• On the way home, Yuskavage picked up a white candle from a bodega and put it in her window.
  — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024