five-and-ten

variants also five-and-dime

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of five-and-ten 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 These five-and-ten or dimestores sold general merchandise– dry goods, clothing, toys, hardware, and sometimes a soda fountain—all in one place. Dawn Thilmany, Forbes.com, 19 May 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 intimate hotel opens for the season in mid-to-late April, and encapsulates the essence of Broad Street, which is known for hyper-local boutiques and restaurants.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • The research boutique said even its neutral rating on the stock might be overly generous.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Noun
  • The footage, published by the Idaho State Journal, shows that an exchange of expletives ensued.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • The United States and Iran have traded new attacks, intensifying an exchange that threatens to collapse their agreement to end the war.
    Courtney Kube, NBC news, 9 July 2026
Noun
  • His platform includes affordable housing, creating county mini marts, senior property reform, and connecting with residents.
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Aside from offering low prices on household brands, Nexcom's larger department stores near big bases in California, Florida and Virginia help pay for smaller shops in remote foreign outposts, such as the mini mart in Redzikowo.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge,Ryan Baker, CNBC, 8 Apr. 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
  • Your next conversation piece could be waiting at your local thrift shop.
    Emma Taubenfeld, Martha Stewart, 4 July 2026
  • His family’s book business started when Weinstein’s uncles turned his grandfather’s thrift shop in India into a bookstore.
    Daily News, Daily News, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Qatar owns the Harrods department store in London and founded the powerful Al Jazeera satellite news network.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • According to interviews with Hooper, the concept for the film crystallized for him after a Christmastime visit to a Montgomery Ward department store.
    Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026

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