Examples of newsagent in a Sentence
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The next day, Campbell visited a newsagent in Paris with a group of models including Kate Moss and Linda Evangelista to buy the British papers reporting her fall.
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Rosa Rahimi, CNN Money, 19 June 2025
Televisions in bars played her hypnotic, threatening speeches, and local newsagents sold Mussolini calendars.
—Joshua Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
In Britain, the country’s newsagents, small corner shops that sell everything from papers and beer to grocery staples, are booming.
—Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2020
The trade association of newspapers and the national union of newsagents made similar points.
—Luiz Romero, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2020
Her parents are Gujaratis who fled Uganda shortly before Idi Amin’s takeover in 1971 and founded first one newsagent and then a chain of them.
—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
With online news services replacing print newspapers, for example, newsagents have no alternative but to find a new profession, whereas retailers need to move online in order to respond to Amazon’s competition.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
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Rosa Rahimi, CNN Money, 19 June 2025
Televisions in bars played her hypnotic, threatening speeches, and local newsagents sold Mussolini calendars.
—Joshua Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
In Britain, the country’s newsagents, small corner shops that sell everything from papers and beer to grocery staples, are booming.
—Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2020
The trade association of newspapers and the national union of newsagents made similar points.
—Luiz Romero, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2020
Her parents are Gujaratis who fled Uganda shortly before Idi Amin’s takeover in 1971 and founded first one newsagent and then a chain of them.
—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
With online news services replacing print newspapers, for example, newsagents have no alternative but to find a new profession, whereas retailers need to move online in order to respond to Amazon’s competition.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
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“Newsagent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsagent. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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