Example sentences for: shopkeepers

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

  • It is also possible that real clients, who are familiar to the shopkeepers, would be refused treatment less often than unknown clients (mystery shoppers).

  • Ephron co-authored and directed the 1998 movie, You've Got Mail , a somewhat flatfooted update of the charming 1940 Ernst Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner (which was also the source material for the even more charming 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me ). You've Got Mail updated the earlier film's epistolary plot (two shopkeepers hate each other by day, each not knowing the other is the correspondent to whom he/she sends anonymous love letters by night) for the Internet age; in the new version, the two swapped messages via AOL.

  • Immigrant shopkeepers and boomer entrepreneurs needed to let passers-by know they were ready for business.

  • Lacking a sizable middle class of farmers and shopkeepers (who would arrive only after World War I), and undergoing intense and rapid capitalist development, large portions of Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho became sharply polarized along class lines--"labor in one camp, the employers in another, no in-between camp, with government a football between the two," according to the final volume of John R. Commons and associates' venerable History of Labor in the United States .

  • 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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