How to Use open shop in a Sentence

open shop

noun
  • And on the first day of sales in Ann Arbor on Dec. 1, plenty of people from Ohio made the drive to one of the three open shops in the city.
    Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The few open shops have painted the colors of the national flag on their storefronts.
    Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • At the few open shops, bored staff members watched movies on their phones, slept or paced aimlessly.
    Rachel Cheung, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Amid the surge in demand, fashion designer Batani-Khalfani decided to make use of all the fabric in her house to open shop.
    Coral Murphy, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Many of Casper’s temporary stores are currently in malls, and the company expects to keep opening shops in top-tier malls.
    Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Many of the stalls sit unoccupied, and the open shops resemble a labyrinth of discount clothing and jewelry.
    Morgan Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Winnfield, the largest city in the parish and the birthplace of legendary Louisiana Gov. Huey Long, has a tiny downtown with as many empty storefronts as open shops.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The community bike shops West Town Bikes and the Recyclery host popular weekly open shop nights for women, trans, and femme folks.
    John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Davenport said that the DAC does not have authority to decide who is allowed to open shop on the property when it is completed.
    James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Suppliers may not open shop again until mid-May or later, so June through September is the ideal window for planning trips in advance.
    Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The two remaining barbers opened shops of their own, and eventually murdered each other in a gunfight over customers and territory.
    Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • On a recent gelid afternoon, Tsalyuk sat at a high-top wooden table inside the Coffee Joint, her soon-to-open shop that will allow patrons to consume pot edibles and use marijuana vape pens.
    Kurtis Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Hideo Hashiura, Laila’s director, recalls opening shop 15 years ago in an unassuming single-room storefront in Jingumae.
    Monica Kim, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Finally, Navarro said, because states are the primary regulators of insurance, tamping down on health care scams can be like playing a game of whack-a-mole — when one state takes action, scammers move to another one to open shop.
    Bram Sable-Smith, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • In Harwood Heights, no official decisions have been made, though the issue has been discussed at length during recent committee meetings, and Village Board members have expressed interest in allowing one distributor to open shop.
    Taylor Hartz, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Taking into account only separation requirements, the city foresees as many as nine dispensaries, 12 lounges and nine manufacturing companies for a total of 30 businesses that could be allowed to open shop.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • After the end of the Cultural Revolution, monks whose land had been expropriated co-operated with local authorities and businesses keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.
    The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018

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