How to Use open shop in a Sentence

open shop

noun
  • This new studio has open stitch nights and open shop days.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • At the few open shops, bored staff members watched movies on their phones, slept or paced aimlessly.
    — Rachel Cheung, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The few open shops have painted the colors of the national flag on their storefronts.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 12 July 2018
  • The company plans to open shops in Raleigh, Greenville and Durham within the next year and a half.
    — Shannon Greene, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2024
  • Retailers tend to be reluctant to open shop in areas with fewer homes and less accessible roads.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the stalls sit unoccupied, and the open shops resemble a labyrinth of discount clothing and jewelry.
    — Morgan Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Many of Casper’s temporary stores are currently in malls, and the company expects to keep opening shops in top-tier malls.
    — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Though still open seven days a week, the mall in southern Moscow appears to be slowly dying, with few open shops and even fewer customers.
    — Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
  • Amid the surge in demand, fashion designer Batani-Khalfani decided to make use of all the fabric in her house to open shop.
    — Coral Murphy, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The latter could influence cost-benefit analyses of companies looking to open shop in Arizona.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The two remaining barbers opened shops of their own, and eventually murdered each other in a gunfight over customers and territory.
    — Rion Amilcar Scott, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The state's industry has generated billions of dollars in sales, but there is still a backlog of thousands of applicants who have been waiting years for approval to open shop.
    — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Suppliers may not open shop again until mid-May or later, so June through September is the ideal window for planning trips in advance.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Davenport said that the DAC does not have authority to decide who is allowed to open shop on the property when it is completed.
    — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The community bike shops West Town Bikes and the Recyclery host popular weekly open shop nights for women, trans, and femme folks.
    — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Despite the fact that the brand was one of the earliest to open shop in the Design District, planning for a bigger space began four or five years ago, according to Schmiedt.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Hideo Hashiura, Laila’s director, recalls opening shop 15 years ago in an unassuming single-room storefront in Jingumae.
    — Monica Kim, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Finally, Navarro said, because states are the primary regulators of insurance, tamping down on health care scams can be like playing a game of whack-a-mole — when one state takes action, scammers move to another one to open shop.
    — Bram Sable-Smith, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2022
  • On a recent gelid afternoon, Tsalyuk sat at a high-top wooden table inside the Coffee Joint, her soon-to-open shop that will allow patrons to consume pot edibles and use marijuana vape pens.
    — Kurtis Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Taking into account only separation requirements, the city foresees as many as nine dispensaries, 12 lounges and nine manufacturing companies for a total of 30 businesses that could be allowed to open shop.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • In Harwood Heights, no official decisions have been made, though the issue has been discussed at length during recent committee meetings, and Village Board members have expressed interest in allowing one distributor to open shop.
    — Taylor Hartz, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • After the end of the Cultural Revolution, monks whose land had been expropriated co-operated with local authorities and businesses keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The settlement of all lawsuits over New York's marijuana licensing program will allow 436 retail license holders entangled in the legal proceedings to gain the ability to open shops and commence deliveries.
    — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

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