grocery cart
noun
US
: a shopping cart used at a grocery store
His idea of a good time is to stalk the cereal aisle or the produce section and count the number of men (not very many) who check the price of an item before tossing it into the grocery cart.—
Patricia T. O'Conner
Patricia T. O'ConnerExamples of grocery cart in a Sentence
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Stock image/file photo: A person pushing a grocery cart in a store.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
In the cinematic video, Carpenter is hitchhiking across a desert landscape in everything from pickup trucks to station wagons to a grocery cart sidecar beside a motorcycle, all the while accompanied by himbos washing themselves with gasoline or trying to smoke a firecracker like a cigarette.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
With Memorial Day weekend just ahead and barbecues firing up across town, one thing’s clear: not all grocery carts are created equal.
—Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 23 May 2025
These tariffs hit the products that fill grocery carts and medicine cabinets across America.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Gigantic and often bland, the squash filled our grocery carts and vexed our dull knives for too many years.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
But the item with the largest monthly price jump in consumers' grocery carts, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index?
—Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
The levies are likely to hit several staples in shoppers’ grocery carts, an NBC News analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found, from berries to avocados to potatoes.
—Jiachuan Wu, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
The first post featured her youngest son, Beau, 7, pushing a grocery cart filled with two Thanksgiving pies and a bottle of wine.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
In the cinematic video, Carpenter is hitchhiking across a desert landscape in everything from pickup trucks to station wagons to a grocery cart sidecar beside a motorcycle, all the while accompanied by himbos washing themselves with gasoline or trying to smoke a firecracker like a cigarette.
—Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
With Memorial Day weekend just ahead and barbecues firing up across town, one thing’s clear: not all grocery carts are created equal.
—Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 23 May 2025
These tariffs hit the products that fill grocery carts and medicine cabinets across America.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Gigantic and often bland, the squash filled our grocery carts and vexed our dull knives for too many years.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
But the item with the largest monthly price jump in consumers' grocery carts, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index?
—Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
The levies are likely to hit several staples in shoppers’ grocery carts, an NBC News analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found, from berries to avocados to potatoes.
—Jiachuan Wu, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
The first post featured her youngest son, Beau, 7, pushing a grocery cart filled with two Thanksgiving pies and a bottle of wine.
—Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Grocery cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery%20cart. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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