Examples of dime-store in a Sentence
Adjective
a dime-store tablecloth that is certainly good enough for a picnic
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Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026
How to tell a true from a false prophet, the real Christ, returned in glory, from a dime-store messiah with a huckster’s charm?
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
Soon afterward, cheap paperback classics could be found everywhere from newsstands to dime stores.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Tommy Lee Walker, a 19-year-old Black man and new father, was convicted in 1954 of the murder of Venice Lorraine Parker, a 29-year-old white woman and dime-store clerk, under a bridge near the Love Field airport.
—Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 21 Jan. 2026
How to tell a true from a false prophet, the real Christ, returned in glory, from a dime-store messiah with a huckster’s charm?
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
And Black is a dime store paperback and pulp fiction aficionado, with the Bolan stories among his favorites.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
Soon afterward, cheap paperback classics could be found everywhere from newsstands to dime stores.
—Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Dime-store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dime-store. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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