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How to use shopkeeper in a sentence

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The Yakuza greases the palm of a creepy shopkeeper to use his basement for the event.
A sharp-eyed shopkeeper, who alerted CCTV operators, was the key to tracing three missing boys.
A nearby shopkeeper who tried to stop the robber was also menaced with the gun as he tried to force the getaway car door open.
A shopkeeper in Anmin said the smoke soared to the height of a factory smokestack but receded after about 10 minutes.
An earlier hearing had found him guilty of assaulting a shopkeeper and using threatening behaviour against police officers who arrested him.
I handed it to the shopkeeper who handed me a small bag of sugar, which I pocketed as a treat for later.
And Sammy, a shopkeeper, decides to combat thieving tearaways with retaliatory violence.
The shopkeeper had placed a small lump of coal in the centre of each to avert the evil eye.
Michael served as an auctioneer from 1955 to 1997 and as a funeral undertaker and shopkeeper up to the time of his death.
The shopkeeper was assaulted when four youths entered his shop brandishing the weapons and stole a sum of money.
A former shopkeeper has been fined for having perishable food on sale past its use-by date.
The Princess stopped crying and looked prettily up at the shopkeeper, letting just one tear roll down her cheek.
A 52-year-old shopkeeper who claimed a back injury hindered him in lifting heavy objects was photographed carrying a cement mixer.
He starts every episode all fired up about putting the shopkeeper away, but usually calms down by the end, even though everybody's dead by then.
The inspector asked the shopkeeper to store it out of sight in a deep freeze.
At the grass-roots level, for every shopkeeper boarded up there will be a pub or hamburger stall doing a roaring trade.
The son of a Nottingham druggist and shopkeeper, he moved to London early in life and established himself as a publisher and editor.
A Quigney shopkeeper, who wished to be anonymous, lambasted people's irresponsible behaviour during this period.
A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job.
On being asked to leave he accused the shopkeeper of being a terrorist and playing a part in the bombings.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You can look into their mouths where the shopkeeper used to dip out the wine.
There is a tale of a certain Arab shopkeeper of the souk dEtoffes who married a stranger from overseas.
The shopkeeper rustled the brown paper, and pretended that he had not heard what was said.
While we were in Nepal, a shopkeeper, who attended the camp, smoked so much charas that he died.
A shopkeeper at Doncaster had for his virtues obtained the name of the little rascal.
In fact, when the foreign-language store exists, there may be a tie between shopkeeper and purchaser.
Ah, he said, as the shopkeeper threw the half sovereign carelessly into the till, I see you have catered for Lucullus?
He could undersell any other shopkeeper in New York because he got his salesmen for next to nothing.
And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
Others say her father was a shopkeeper at Ling-ling in Hunan.
An accident on a staircase, spontaneous combustion of a shopkeeper from alcohol, a fire in Peski.
If you wish to see what abysses servility can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shopkeeper in the character of a Russian prince.
I expressed my immense preference for the shopkeeper of the two.
Jonas Mudge, chandler's shopkeeper, an enthusiastic and disinterested vessel, who sold tea to the members.
Planchet had with his equals the short speech and the haughty familiarity of the rich shopkeeper who serves everybody and waits for nobody.
The effect was supposed to be Pompeiian and Rita and I had often laughed at the delirious fancy of some enriched shopkeeper.
He got his education from Karachi University in 2003 but continued his own business as shopkeeper of the unstitched clothes in Metroville.
He, the shopkeeper, is superior to such broad and obvious humor as that.
A KNICKER-SNATCHING thief hurled a pair of frilly knickers at a 63-year-old shopkeeper who chased him after he made a run with the stolen goods.
He was a shopkeeper in Oughterarde, and known to the whole neighbourhood.
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