How to Use department store in a Sentence

department store

noun
  • Some have deemed it the best department store in the world.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The department store offers free gift wrap on most items all year.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2021
  • So the grand dame got on the telephone and called the department store.
    — Louis J. Esterhazy, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This is one of the department store's best sales of the year, and no one should miss out on it.
    — Eva Thomas, PEOPLE.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Read what's become of department stores like it.
    — Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Straight from the department store beauty counter.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
  • So saying the department store model is dead is crazy.
    — David Moin, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Then the food court closed, and the Macy’s department store.
    — Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Mabel asked, on our way to work at the department store, bits of snow catching in her hair.
    — Colin Heasley, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Find these on Amazon or at department stores.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In the clip, Giuliani walks through a department store dressed in head-to-toe drag.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Why is everyone at this department store so mean?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The past few years have been full of quite a few shakeups for luxury department stores.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This is the kind of New York department store high-dollar dreams are made of.
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The brand could also make a return to the department store arena.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Fragrance used to be a splurge purchase reserved for the department store counter.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
  • The anchor department stores helped the tenants on the upper floors, of course.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • The suspect later fell to his death from a department store building.
    — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The recipe comes from a bygone department store called Miller & Rhoads.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And department stores have been cratering for decades.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The bargain outlet boom comes as department stores and malls struggle.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • Young soon dropped out of school and took a job in the appliance department of a department store.
    — Stuart Silverstein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Spending also picked up at gas stations and department stores.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 July 2023
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    — Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2024
  • The French section of the old City of Paris department store.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The department store giant has so far avoided the worst of the glut of goods that has tripped up so many retailers.
    — Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The upscale department store landscape has volatile in recent years.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The department store chain tested the concept with 200 stores in the fall.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2022

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