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. This store does not give credit.
3. The shoe store is across from the bank.
4. That store was a front for foreign agent.
5. Within two years he was managing the store.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STORE
store
 n.  a depository for goods
 v.  keep or lay aside for future use
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  The two were sitting in a carriage outside a drygoods store.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Men set such a store by kisses, though Heaven alone knew why.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Ladies set such a store by pets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
1  The store debited his account for the purchase.
2  Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
3  That store was a front for foreign agent.
4  The banks have long competed with American Express's charge cards and various store cards.
5  This animal makes a store of nuts for the winter.
6  The shoe store is across from the bank.
7  If their latest album is half as good as their last one, we've a real treat in store.
8  The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.
9  I really like the variety the store has to offer.
10  Within two years he was managing the store.
11  The grain store processed flour wrappers for Chinese dumplings.
12  The store detective was keeping a close eye on a suspected shoplifter.
13  The mind boggles at the possibilities that could be in store for us.
14  This store does not give credit.
15  The questionnaire is to test customer reaction to the new store design.