How to Use general store in a Sentence

general store

noun
  • The general store with its high false front stands on the main road.
    — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Picked you up at your moms drove to alsea general store and drove back.
    — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Check out the general store to see the school’s line of products and spices.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Plains has a train depot, a general store that sells peanut ice cream, and not much else.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • The complex is next to a general store, plus there was a handy shuttle stop.
    — Irene Lechowitzky, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The Mill did evolve very rapidly from an all-day cafe to a general store.
    — George McCalman, SFChronicle.com, 2 Aug. 2020
  • There are now modern log cabins, a lodge, a general store, zip lines and much more.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The general store was still fully stocked, a bin of hockey sticks with prices still on them by the door.
    — Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2018
  • Hit the hay at a hotel in town, then stock up on road-trip snacks at the general store for the next leg of your drive.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
  • This kind of old-time cafe general store type place closed after the Kincade fire.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Elmore consists of a short main drag with the school, the general store across the street, town hall, and one church.
    — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The tavern, formerly a general store, was built with the same type of stone used for the church.
    — Barry Adams, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Check out the general store for souvenirs, grab a burger, and strap on your dancing shoes.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Check out the general store for souvenirs, grab a burger, and strap on your dancing shoes.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Such forces brought an end to the traditional general store.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • The general store, a short walk away, has a great selection of craft beers — grab a sixer and post up near the fire pit.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Residents drove to make a run to the town’s general store, since the short walk was too dangerous.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • Crockett just got a new sheriff as well, a widower with a son who works out of the back of the general store.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
  • At the time, there were eight or nine Amish families in the valley as well as a general store.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The teen-aged Barnum learned the lessons of commerce working in a general store.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The general store, the post office and the recreation hall have all been refurbished.
    — Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a room at the front where the owner of the general store employed a guard who lived and protected two safes.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Its timeworn streets give way to boutiques, a general store, and even a restaurant housed in an old cotton gin.
    — Lauren Jones, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The village of Two Harbors is there as well, with a general store to stock up on goods.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Walk five miles from camp to reach the island’s small village for lobster rolls from the food truck or ice cream from the general store.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 12 July 2021
  • But the lodge’s general store and gift shop are to open for roughly the same dates, with restaurants reduced to a grab-and-go menu.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
  • Families can also visit the petting barn, shop in the general store and grab a bite in the cafe.
    — Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Built in 1901, the general store once served as a town post office and gas station.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The site was built in the 1800s as a general store, but has sat vacant in recent years.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Whitehead sat down on a bench in front of the Five and Dime, a general store with a red-and-yellow awning.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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