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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024