How to Use shopkeeper in a Sentence

shopkeeper

noun
  • Even the shopkeepers don’t know when the next shipment will come in.
    — Aryn Baker, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • One video showed a store as a man bought eggs and conversed with the shopkeeper.
    — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • The shopkeeper’s bell rings, and a stroller wheels through the doorway.
    — Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The young Afghan shopkeeper knows the high price of living in the line of fire.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2022
  • And even if shopkeepers play by the rules, other people might not.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • For a brief period, all eyes were on the shopkeeper.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Stores have few or no customers, and shopkeepers stand around looking bored.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • Of course, these hikes might reflect the prices shopkeepers are having to pay to get hold of the items.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Rafiq thanked the shopkeeper and hurried out of the bazaar’s maze-like structure to find his car.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Frozen briefly cut to a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment of a gay shopkeeper’s husband and kids.
    — Time, 23 June 2021
  • The interior was dim and cramped, it wasn’t set up for a shopkeeper of his size.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Protests broke out first in Tehran’s bazaars, as merchants and shopkeepers took to the streets in anger.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Some older shopkeepers who learned to use the soroban as children still rely on them.
    — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2019
  • What is your strategy as a shopkeeper for dealing with know-it-alls?
    — Ashlea Halpern, Bon Appetit, 24 Apr. 2017
  • The blast shoook the ground, said Mohammed Ali, a shopkeeper in the area.
    — NBC News, 4 July 2020
  • So says the shopkeeper, Scott Friedland, who took the reins two years ago.
    — Griffin Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a river for whistling at a white shopkeeper.
    — Debbie Elliott, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The white-coated shopkeeper wrapped the candle in a discreet, cloth bag.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The clever shopkeeper would study these alien creatures, to understand their tastes.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Frida bought us clothes and spoke to all the shopkeepers, who knew her taste and offered the shuk’s version of a big sale.
    — Debbie Spingarn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • These may hold the key to making the season merry for the nation's busy shopkeepers.
    — Joe Arrage, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The three-story mall with its little shops and the familiar faces of the shopkeepers was enough.
    — Amal Murtaja, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • During the day, the men are drivers, shopkeepers and farmers.
    — Showkat Nanda Atul Loke, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Late one night, the heavies from the local don throw a few bricks through the window of an honest shopkeeper.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The shopkeepers actually smile at the tourists' kids, and there is nary a stoplight in town.
    — Rachel Walker, chicagotribune.com, 27 July 2017
  • There’s the shopkeeper fussing in a garage, from whose door a rope invitingly dangles.
    — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Guarded by a vigilant shopkeeper, the shop could hold the key to the strangers’ pasts, presents and futures.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The shopkeeper is about 25, his shirt unbuttoned to reveal a glint of gold chain.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2016
  • In a second house, three shopkeepers and a guest, all home for a holiday, were shot and killed, said a witness.
    — NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Danny works as a house cleaner and sleeps in the storeroom of a bullying shopkeeper.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020

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