How to Use five-and-dime in a Sentence

five-and-dime

noun
  • Back then, the working class community was thriving, home to clothing stores, a five-and-dime, and a Murry’s grocery store.
    — Amanda Abrams, thehustle.co, 13 Mar. 2026
  • That experience, along with the widespread closings of old-fashioned five-and-dime stores, inspired Graczyk to pen the work that would be his legacy.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Similar scales, smaller, more narrow, usually red, would remain well into the 1970s inside supermarkets and five-and-dimes like Woolworth.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The 75-year-old daughter of Sam Walton, the late Walmart founder who turned a five-and-dime store in rural Arkansas into the world’s largest company by revenue, thinks the US is very close to that breaking point.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Cher was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Los Angeles Film Critics award for her performance as Sissy, one of the long-ago five-and-dime employees and James Dean fan club members who return for a reunion.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The movie takes place entirely in a Texas five-and-dime store where a group of old friends (among them Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates) reunite 20 years after James Dean’s death for a reunion of their James Dean fan club.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
  • The museum is near the site of Alice Walton’s father Sam Walton’s first five-and-dime store, in Alice’s childhood hometown, which is now home to Walmart’s global headquarters (and the small Walmart Museum, complete with a talking hologram of Sam Walton).
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026

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