Example sentences for: shopkeepers

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

  • Shopkeepers are happy to let you climb up to their roof terraces for a striking view across a whole fairytale forest of some one thousand trulli domes.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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