How to Use head shop in a Sentence

head shop

noun
  • In the store, a group looks around what could pass for a posh hotel spa rather than a hippie-era head shop.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 27 Apr. 2018
  • It's now sold in head shops and gas stations, and there is no clear standard as to what passes for kratom.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
  • It's sold in specialty stores, head shops and gas stations, as well as online.
    — Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2019
  • That amounts to $362 per square foot for space that was previously home to a head shop.
    — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Hollywood Hi is an old fashioned head shop a few doors down from Friendly Stranger.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The first head shop in this state at the forefront of counterculture and legal marijuana plans to close with the new year.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Eighteen months ago, the couple arranged to take over the lease of Charlotte’s Web, a longtime head shop.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Today, even the crowds of young people who came for the head shops, T-shirt emporiums and glam-trashy-fashion boutiques have waned.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • After 76 years in business, a popular head shop in Corryville is closing.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Tinctures are one of the most popular ways to ingest CBD and are available at most head shops and online.
    — Mary Schumacher, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Some businesses, including head shops and dispensaries, also offer discounts on the day.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Myers says the store was the first head shop in Colorado when previous owner Jerry Weintraub opened it.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Two bong-wielding bandits are accused of beating a store clerk bloody with the glass water pipe during a Vancouver head shop heist, authorities said.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The council voted that new head shops, tobacco and vape shops will no longer be permitted in residential areas like Park Hill.
    — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Rich Murphy, who directs the program, learned about cannabis after working part-time at a Denver head shop in 2003.
    — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • Matt works at Mystic Arts World, a head shop, art gallery and community center owned by the Brotherhood.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Kratom, and its more powerful derivative 7-OH, are drugs that have been available over the counter at vape shops, head shops and convenience stores.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • States are enacting laws to ban the sale of fake urine, which retails for about $17 to $40 in head shops, truck stops and on the Internet, and is easy to purchase.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Austin’s druggy counterculture adopted the character as its mascot; a popular head shop was named Oat Willie’s.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • On California Avenue, there were head shops and herbal-medicine shops and an old-fashioned pharmacy with Clairol boxes and comic-book racks.
    — David Leavitt, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Amid anti-Vietnam War protests and the hippie movement, The Cupboard gained its new identity as a counter-culture gift and head shop.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 9 July 2024
  • Convenience stores, vape shops, and head shops sometimes have open displays of nitrous oxide canisters for sale with clever marketing names that are clearly targeting abusers of the product.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The Alley owner Mark Thomas has spent almost 50 years running Chicago's most famous head shop and clothing store.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
  • In 1970, the units were occupied by a doctor, a professional photographer and a struggling head shop, which had the lone hanging sign in the front of the store.
    — Dennis Sullivan, Daily Southtown, 11 June 2018
  • In states where the products are legal, there are generally no age restrictions, so even children can easily buy delta-8 online or at local convenience stores, gas stations and head shops.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Thomas wants to partner with dispensaries and cannabis businesses, bringing The Alley full circle from its early head shop days at Woodfield Mall.
    — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The North Little Rock city council voted to update restrictions regarding head shops, tobacco and vape stores on Monday.
    — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2023
  • President Joe Biden commuted the federal drug sentence of the former owner of an infamous downtown Duluth head shop.
    — Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Ditching her secretarial job at the BBC to work in a head shop, Harry navigated the edges of new sensibilities.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • American fans grow their own plants from seeds, which can be purchased along with the actual plant and extracts online or in head shops, according to the men's publication MEL magazine.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 31 May 2018

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