STORE in a Sentence

Learn STORE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

366 example sentences for STORE, such as:

1. Ladies set such a store by pets.
2. I guess I'll mosey on down to the store now.
3. He's customer services manager at the store.
4. The department store was thronged with people.
5. It's possible to store a lot more data on a DVD.

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 Meanings and Examples of STORE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
store
 n.  a large shop where you can buy many types of goods
 n.  a number of things kept for future use
 n.  a place in which things are kept until they are needed
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Ethan, consumed with the longing for a last moment alone with Mattie, hung about impatiently while Denis made an ineffectual search in the obscurer corners of the store.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  "I hope Zeena ain't broken anything she sets store by," she called after him as he turned the greys toward home.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
4  Those who, as yet, had no horses sat on the curb in front of Bullard's store and watched their mounted comrades, chewed tobacco and told yarns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  Gerald's voice was strangely quiet and he spoke slowly as if drawing his words from a store of thought seldom used.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Nor did James and Andrew, who took him into their store in Savannah, regret his lack of education.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  James and Andrew, who had begun by hauling goods in covered wagons from Savannah to Georgia's inland towns, had prospered into a store of their own, and Gerald prospered with them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  The two were sitting in a carriage outside a drygoods store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Men set such a store by kisses, though Heaven alone knew why.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Ladies set such a store by pets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  Vaguely she had a memory of Suellen chattering about Frank and a store but she never paid much heed to anything Suellen said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  Yes, I've got a store, and a pretty good one I think.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  You know what they did to Jonesboro and my house and store there.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  But I used the ten dollars to put a roof on an old store down by Five Points and I moved the hospital equipment in and started selling it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  But I cleared money on it and bought some more stuff and the store just went along fine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
16  He's customer services manager at the store.
17  It's possible to store a lot more data on a DVD.
18  The department store was thronged with people.
19  The department store is auctioning off the remaining inventory.
20  A throng of shoppers pushed against one another to the display tables of the department store.
21  The children were fascinated by the toys in the big department store.
22  One of the advantages of a department store is that you are left to yourself to try things on.
23  They wandered off in the direction of the nearest store.
24  The shopkeeper gave his store a final checkup before closing for the night.
25  The owner of the store was sweeping his floor when I walked in.
26  I guess I'll mosey on down to the store now.
27  A furniture store did me out of several hundred pounds.
28  He asked them to identify areas in which operating costs could be brought down without significantly affecting store revenues.
29  They wanted the store to have a folksy small-town image.
30  The store had everything including the proverbial kitchen sink.