five-and-ten

variants also five-and-dime

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of five-and-ten The brewery opened in 2021 inside a building constructed in 1952 as an Edwards five-and-dime store. Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 The museum is near the site of Alice Walton’s father Sam Walton’s first five-and-dime store, in Alice’s childhood hometown, which is now home to Walmart’s global headquarters (and the small Walmart Museum, complete with a talking hologram of Sam Walton). Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026 The movie takes place entirely in a Texas five-and-dime store where a group of old friends (among them Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates) reunite 20 years after James Dean’s death for a reunion of their James Dean fan club. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 1 May 2026 That experience, along with the widespread closings of old-fashioned five-and-dime stores, inspired Graczyk to pen the work that would be his legacy. Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026 Back then, the working class community was thriving, home to clothing stores, a five-and-dime, and a Murry’s grocery store. Amanda Abrams, thehustle.co, 13 Mar. 2026 The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026 The 75-year-old daughter of Sam Walton, the late Walmart founder who turned a five-and-dime store in rural Arkansas into the world’s largest company by revenue, thinks the US is very close to that breaking point. Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five-and-ten
Noun
  • Opening in 1951, the Broadway Shopping Center, as it was then called, also offered space for several anchor department stores, along with a Woolworth variety store.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • And that didn’t include Barnes & Noble outlets, college bookstores, online-only sellers, rare book dealers, Friends of the Library shops or variety stores that also sell books.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • The referral-only, bicoastal boutique fitness studio has long been a go-to for celebrities, from the Hadids to Lori Harvey and Kendall Jenner.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Also located nearby are designer boutiques (Casa Loewe is just around the corner), trendy bars like Red Frog, and glamorous restaurants such as JNcQUOI.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Ironically, this whole exchange happened before she’d even officially been cast in the movie.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Each addition pulls another exchange function inside the brokerage perimeter, where it gets priced like brokerage.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Consolidating it as Europe’s most significant Latin American meet and mart when a presence at co-production platforms has become ever more essential for the survival of so many Latin American filmmakers.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • His platform includes affordable housing, creating county mini marts, senior property reform, and connecting with residents.
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • In a press release, the San Jose Police Department said its retail theft unit was investigating retail thefts of large amounts of golf balls from multiple retail chain stores between March 25 and May 5.
    Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • Appliances Over 10 Years Old Habitat for Humanity ReStore is one of the few secondhand chain stores that accepts large appliances—whether laundry machines or fridges.
    Shagun Khare, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • During the 1930s and 1940s, customers could find glassware nearly anywhere, from department stores to dime stores and from catalogs to grocery-store promotions.
    Alexandra Churchill, Martha Stewart, 17 Apr. 2026
  • And Black is a dime store paperback and pulp fiction aficionado, with the Bolan stories among his favorites.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Sacramento’s movie-famous thrift shop, Valley Thrift Town, will close at the end of August following a decision made by its new owners.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • They were converted from homes in the 1970s and had been home to a pet-grooming service, antique shop, thrift shop and small Tex-Mex restaurant before they were connected in 2016 for the opening of Taco Heads.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2026
Noun
  • Three decades later, the department store had become a shadow of its former self, reporting annual losses since 2019.
    Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Of course, Knoxville decided to up the stakes by squaring off with the man in a department store.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026

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