Example sentences for: grocer

How can you use “grocer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Advice on the policy of divide and rule is contained in When the cat and mouse make peace, the grocer's store is lost .

  • The first to open its doors is usually the bakery (boulangerie), and there’s always a small grocer (épicerie) or mini-supermarket in which you can shop until 9 or 10pm, or even midnight.

  • The names were Block (barber); Bones (butcher); Bun (baker); Bung (brewer); Chip (carpenter); Dip (dyer); Dose (doctor); Grits (grocer); Potts (painter); Tape (tailor); Soot (sweep).

  • In the versions that abandoned the alliterative connection, it was possibly easier to give a satirical slant to the names, as with Mr. Sand the Grocer, probably alluding to the same suspicions of adulteration in the trade voiced in G.K. Chesterton's verses, The Song Against Grocers:


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