Example sentences for: shopkeepers

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

  • The heroes of his early stories, from the 1940s and '50s, tend to be poor, inarticulate shopkeepers and workers (tailors, grocers, shoemakers, census-takers--Malamud almost always identified his characters by profession, in a bow to the proletarianism of the '30s), New York Jews mostly, whose rough outer appearances suddenly fall away to reveal inner souls of the purest lyrical passion.

  • However, the Egyptians are tenacious shopkeepers and you will have to have a will of steel and sense of humor to ignore their sales pitches.

  • The "New Palestinian Jew ," they said, needed to be physically tougher than the brainy shopkeepers who had been trampled in Europe.

  • A dozen languages echo from the dome above the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and some of the shopkeepers in the labyrinthine bazaars speak all of them and more.

  • The metric system originated in France in the late 17 th century to combat rampant commercial fraud by farmers and shopkeepers who used the varied systems of weights and measures to their advantage.


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