How to Use storekeeper in a Sentence

storekeeper

noun
  • Some storekeepers’ plans were foiled.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 20 June 2026
  • Blood pooled around his skull, fractured by the blow from a club wielded by a storekeeper who’d chased him down.
    — Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
  • The children of storekeepers, who’d meet up during the day while their parents were hard at work.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • But his role went far beyond storekeeper, Hassane said.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Davos storekeepers rent out their premises so that forum participants can have the prime real estate for the week.
    — Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
  • When the storekeeper told the customer the bill was counterfeit, the customer paid for the entire purchase with his credit card.
    — Jennifer James, Houston Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Lockhart said the department has another employee who does the same work as a storekeeper.
    — Steve Harrison, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2017
  • Bystanders and storekeepers rushed them, and within a minute or two Hassan was shot dead and Ahmed was bleeding on the tram tracks.
    — Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker, 27 May 2017
  • Johnny Ramos is a storekeeper in Macapeyo, a village where paramilitary troops killed more than a dozen peasants.
    — John Otis, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • In the past, the primary audience was locals and storekeeper Tom Jones' family and friends.
    — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Her father, Gordon, was a grocer and then a storekeeper in an aircraft factory, and her mother, Dora, worked in cotton mills.
    — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Hanna is an only child, and Ben Edmunds is a storekeeper, with more money than the Ingalls family can raise in three books combined.
    — Nalini Jones, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • In Sejong, a city in the country’s central region, a storekeeper who was checking for rain damage to his shop was killed when a landslide hit, according to the government.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • The result is that a host of jobs, including storekeeper and field engineer, that seemed out of reach of remote work are likely to be firmly in the remote-work orbit within the next 10 years.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Variety reports that Wilson's role will be a woman named Carolyn, a storekeeper at Doan's Crossing.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In the communal parlance of Laguna Honda, LeBoeuf is a storekeeper.
    — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Members of the Winter family served as business owners, storekeepers, and dairy farmers until the 1940s.
    — Maria Carter, Country Living, 28 Feb. 2017
  • These would-be virtual storekeepers might find lower per piece prices contracting with a more traditional wholesaler, but then would also have to develop their own digital storefront and backend.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 13 May 2017
  • Performed by Kevin Del Aguila as Oaken, the loopy storekeeper, the scene also contains the show's best dance number, a comical variation on an old-school fan dance.
    — Deborah Wilker, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Nestled within an unassuming shopping plaza, a bookstore's display window houses titles that may not be on a mainstream bestsellers list, but nonetheless are highly recommended by storekeepers.
    — Alex Chan, latimes.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • For instance, not long ago General Pershing indicated the immediate need of a number of men qualified as commissary storekeepers for service in France.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • Structured like a fireside chat – or an adult bedtime story – Buyer & Cellar has Alex recount his experiences at his next job, as storekeeper and stock boy in the little mall underneath Streisand’s compound.
    — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Billy House capitalizes upon all of his rich comedy opportunities as the colorful village storekeeper, and some fine moments are attained by Martha Wentworth as a housekeeper.
    — Jack D. Grant, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2022
  • Having police misinterpret behaviors that are partially shaped by a disability –– after a storekeeper, neighbor, or even family member gets nervous and calls the police –– may be a more rare occurrence than being ignored or denied a job opportunity.
    — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • About five miles north of the intersection, a peace parade was held in the Koreatown neighborhood, where tensions between black residents and Korean-American immigrant storekeepers led to markets, shops and gas stations being looted or burned.
    — Robert Jablon, The Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2017
  • Placerville’s occupations in 1865 included a butcher, four bakers, a tinsmith, five carpenters, two lumber dealers, two boot and shoemakers, three stable keepers, four blacksmiths, four jewelers and five general storekeepers.
    — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 7 Apr. 2018

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