How to Use bodega in a Sentence

bodega

noun
  • Time to take our spoon to the next bodega.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The bodega scene meant a huge amount to me to get right.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Go to your bodega or market, at any hour of the day.
    Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In one quick clip, a bodega patron throws a drink at him.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The guy who runs the bodega across the street from my apartment.
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The man works in a bodega across the street from the collapse site.
    Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Think diner food but at bodega speed.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The Heath bars from my local bodega worked in a pinch.
    Editors Of Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The new space will feature a bottle shop, wine bar and bodega.
    Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The three suspects were last seen fleeing the bodega on foot.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Ask the owners for their black book of restaurants and bodegas.
    Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Every bar and many bodegas were showing the game.
    Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
  • Cheeses, tinned fish and other items from the bodega will be featured on the bar menu.
    Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2021
  • At the heart of the movie is a bodega owner who dreams for (and sings about) a better life.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 20 Mar. 2023
  • At the corner bodega where neighbors talk about how there is no work and no way to pay the bills.
    New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Etan, 6, disappeared on his way to a school bus stop next to the bodega.
    James C. McKinley Jr., New York Times, 13 Jan. 2016
  • Sometimes bodega staff will adopt a kitten from a litter in need of homes.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The Exchange is a bodega, bar and restaurant all in one.
    Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Throughout New York, many bodegas have raised prices on eggs.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The Breeze doubles as a wine shop, bodega-like market and a gift shop.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Most other coffee bars and bodegas charged 75 cents or a buck.
    Gary Stern, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Leighton said there were also long lines outside a few small bodegas that remained open.
    Philip Wang, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There’s something about street cats and bodega cats and the survival instinct side of the city.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
  • As before, Thamee sells spices and some of its condiments from a small bodega near the door.
    Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • In the back of the space, the bodega will have a small bar for coffee, ice cream and libations.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The bodega cat is a fixture in NYC.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There’s also a counter meant to evoke a bodega, stocked with fresh Ess-a-Bagel.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Wear them on your next trip to Europe, or with a pair of chinos to the bodega down the street.
    Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Hopefully, the law gets passed allowing the bodega cat to stay in the store.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Her father later worked as a taxi driver and a bodega owner.
    Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026

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