How to Use bodega in a Sentence
bodega
noun-
Goulding’s culinary highlight of the trip was a New York classic — a bacon, egg and cheese — from a corner bodega.
— Kristen Tauer, WWD, 19 July 2024 -
Said to be the first bodega to plant vines in the region, Bodegas Salentein put down roots in San Pablo in 1996.
— Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2024 -
But there is still no guarantee a person — whose father, aunt, neighbor or local bodega owner facilitates the introduction to a sport or team — becomes attached.
— Ben Berkon, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2015 -
Then, one sunny afternoon in 2001, as Johnny parked his Nissan sedan outside a nearby bodega, he was killed in a spray of bullets.
— Monica Campbell, Marie Claire, 21 July 2011 -
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 -
His plan was to stop in the bodega for a soda along the way.
— Rick Rojas, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2017 -
The bodega will stock items like beer, wine and snacks.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, 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 -
Etan, 6, disappeared on his way to a school bus stop next to the bodega.
— James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Though the effort has now outgrown Cleo's space, the bodega emerged as just one of many partners.
— Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2020 -
Castro arrived in Cleveland in the 1950s and opened the mom-and-pop bodega not long after.
— Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017 -
The bodega is at 122 Hillside Ave. in the Behind the Rocks neighborhood.
— Ruth Bruno, courant.com, 28 June 2018 -
The insulation, the bubble, moves with you, at least as far as the bodega on the corner.
— P. E. Moskowitz, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2022 -
What about the weed-selling bodegas and trucks that had been sprouting up across the city throughout the summer?
— Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024 -
The family of a man who was killed by a New York bodega worker is planning to sue the store.
— Max Thornberry, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
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