How to Use storekeeper in a Sentence

storekeeper

noun

• Blood pooled around his skull, fractured by the blow from a club wielded by a storekeeper who’d chased him down.
  — Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
• Bystanders and storekeepers rushed them, and within a minute or two Hassan was shot dead and Ahmed was bleeding on the tram tracks.
  — Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
• When the storekeeper told the customer the bill was counterfeit, the customer paid for the entire purchase with his credit card.
  — Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• In the past, the primary audience was locals and storekeeper Tom Jones' family and friends.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
• Johnny Ramos is a storekeeper in Macapeyo, a village where paramilitary troops killed more than a dozen peasants.
  — John Otis, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Hanna is an only child, and Ben Edmunds is a storekeeper, with more money than the Ingalls family can raise in three books combined.
  — Nalini Jones, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
• Performed by Kevin Del Aguila as Oaken, the loopy storekeeper, the scene also contains the show's best dance number, a comical variation on an old-school fan dance.
  — Deborah Wilker, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
• Lockhart said the department has another employee who does the same work as a storekeeper.
  — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2017
• The result is that a host of jobs, including storekeeper and field engineer, that seemed out of reach of remote work are likely to be firmly in the remote-work orbit within the next 10 years.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Her father, Gordon, was a grocer and then a storekeeper in an aircraft factory, and her mother, Dora, worked in cotton mills.
  — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2022
• Members of the Winter family served as business owners, storekeepers, and dairy farmers until the 1940s.
  — Maria Carter, Country Living, 28 Feb. 2017
• In the communal parlance of Laguna Honda, LeBoeuf is a storekeeper.
  — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• Variety reports that Wilson's role will be a woman named Carolyn, a storekeeper at Doan's Crossing.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• Structured like a fireside chat – or an adult bedtime story – Buyer & Cellar has Alex recount his experiences at his next job, as storekeeper and stock boy in the little mall underneath Streisand’s compound.
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• The group relies on a vast network of informers: watchmen, storekeepers, villagers, tollbooth operators.
  — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• These would-be virtual storekeepers might find lower per piece prices contracting with a more traditional wholesaler, but then would also have to develop their own digital storefront and backend.
  — Ben Popken, NBC News, 13 May 2017
• For instance, not long ago General Pershing indicated the immediate need of a number of men qualified as commissary storekeepers for service in France.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• About five miles north of the intersection, a peace parade was held in the Koreatown neighborhood, where tensions between black residents and Korean-American immigrant storekeepers led to markets, shops and gas stations being looted or burned.
  — Robert Jablon, The Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2017
• Nestled within an unassuming shopping plaza, a bookstore's display window houses titles that may not be on a mainstream bestsellers list, but nonetheless are highly recommended by storekeepers.
  — Alex Chan, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Billy House capitalizes upon all of his rich comedy opportunities as the colorful village storekeeper, and some fine moments are attained by Martha Wentworth as a housekeeper.
  — Jack D. Grant, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2022
• Placerville’s occupations in 1865 included a butcher, four bakers, a tinsmith, five carpenters, two lumber dealers, two boot and shoemakers, three stable keepers, four blacksmiths, four jewelers and five general storekeepers.
  — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 7 Apr. 2018
• Having police misinterpret behaviors that are partially shaped by a disability –– after a storekeeper, neighbor, or even family member gets nervous and calls the police –– may be a more rare occurrence than being ignored or denied a job opportunity.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 14 June 2021

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024