How to Use shopkeeper in a Sentence

shopkeeper

noun
  • The young Afghan shopkeeper knows the high price of living in the line of fire.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The blast shoook the ground, said Mohammed Ali, a shopkeeper in the area.
    NBC News, 4 July 2020
  • Even the shopkeepers don’t know when the next shipment will come in.
    Aryn Baker, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • One video showed a store as a man bought eggs and conversed with the shopkeeper.
    Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • Of course, these hikes might reflect the prices shopkeepers are having to pay to get hold of the items.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2020
  • So says the shopkeeper, Scott Friedland, who took the reins two years ago.
    Griffin Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • There are two men in the store: the shopkeeper, who seems nervous, and a guy with a swollen black eye, who chats with her.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 19 July 2024
  • The shopkeeper did not care that the 15-year-old was approaching the counter, $2 in her hand and the juice in her backpack.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
  • Frozen briefly cut to a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment of a gay shopkeeper’s husband and kids.
    Time, 23 June 2021
  • Frida bought us clothes and spoke to all the shopkeepers, who knew her taste and offered the shuk’s version of a big sale.
    Debbie Spingarn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • Guarded by a vigilant shopkeeper, the shop could hold the key to the strangers’ pasts, presents and futures.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
  • When Fazeli-Monfared stepped out of the store he was forced into a car, the shopkeeper told Mama Ali.
    Gul Tuysuz, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • The white-coated shopkeeper wrapped the candle in a discreet, cloth bag.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The shopkeepers near the mosque in Kilis had no doubts about who was responsible for the attack.
    Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The shopkeeper is about 25, his shirt unbuttoned to reveal a glint of gold chain.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2016
  • The shopkeepers actually smile at the tourists' kids, and there is nary a stoplight in town.
    Rachel Walker, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2017
  • Every year, the shopkeepers of La Villita had to clean up all the berries tracked into their shops from the anaquas in the courtyard.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 1 June 2018
  • Zahid Meerani, a shopkeeper, knows her grief all too well.
    New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • During the day, the men are drivers, shopkeepers and farmers.
    Showkat Nanda Atul Loke, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • For the last three years, shopkeepers across America have been up in arms about the alleged crime wave that has gripped the nation’s cities.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Till was 14 years old when Carolyn Donham, a 21-year-old shopkeeper in the town of Money, said the youth grabbed and whistled at her.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 12 July 2018
  • In a second house, three shopkeepers and a guest, all home for a holiday, were shot and killed, said a witness.
    NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Ahrens said yes—unbeknownst to Hines, the 75-year-old shopkeeper had been waiting for him.
    Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Some older shopkeepers who learned to use the soroban as children still rely on them.
    New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Tip: Don’t abuse a plant shopkeeper’s desire to make the customer happy.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • As Bach and Chung note, shopkeepers can’t keep Sonny Angels on their shelves.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 8 July 2024
  • Naazdanah, the 11-year-old daughter of a shopkeeper, heard the blasts from her home in a neighboring village.
    Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The tradition started in the 1970s — shopkeepers would stay open later in the evening so locals wouldn't have to travel to Cape Cod to buy gifts.
    Katrina Brown Hunt, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In a Jamaica summer, two estranged cousins converge and, after a petty theft, are cursed by a local shopkeeper.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Action thriller follows a shopkeeper who must save his son from an angry mob during the 1992 L.A. uprising after the Rodney King verdict.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2024

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