five-and-ten

variants also five-and-dime

Examples of five-and-ten in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web Some considered Woolworth’s the first national discounter, but Woolworth’s is best classified as a Main Street, five-and-dime store, with counters for sandwiches and chocolate egg cremes. David Moin, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024 Back in February 1960 in Nashville, a group of mostly Black college students famously took seats at the lunch counter of Woolworth’s five-and-dime downtown to stage a nonviolent protest against segregation. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024 The prominent corner store has seen a succession of uses over the years: it’s been a variety store (the G.C. Murphy five-and-dime shop), a dollar store, an antique mall and, most recently, a restaurant called the Five and Dime Ale House, which closed last year. Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2024 The sit-in movement had been touched off on Feb. 1, 1960, when four Black college students sat down at a White-only lunch counter at an F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store in downtown Greensboro, N.C. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024 Kmart started in the late 1800s as the S.S. Kresge Co., becoming a small chain of five-and-dime discount stores. Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five-and-ten
Noun
  • By the late 1990s, both Woolworth and McCrory’s landed in bankruptcy court after variety stores fell out of favor.
    Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Dollar Tree is a leading operator of discount variety stores.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The opposite, in a sense, was true at the Piaget boutique, where Manuel Alonso Cloux, the brand’s omnichannel director for U.S. and Canada, proudly showed off the new Polo Skeleton.
    Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The Hiatus Clearwater Beach, Florida Celano Design Studio Co. teamed up with hotel developer 3H Group on a new 88-room boutique hotel along the beach walk at Clearwater Beach, Florida.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • He was traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Panthers this past offseason, with the Steelers sending Johnson and a seventh-round pick to Carolina in exchange for cornerback Donte Jackson and a sixth-round pick.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Sony picked up domestic rights in exchange for a distribution fee.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • With more and more Chinese wanting a daily java fix, grab-and-go coffee is becoming widely available at tea chains and convenient marts.
    Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
  • By tempting customers’ palates with fresh deli sandwiches and build-your-own burgers, the humble food marts want to become an alternative to fast-food restaurants for busy Americans who crave easy, interesting and less expensive eating options.
    Anne D'Innocenzio, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • All around it are thriving chain stores attracting steady streams of customers in sectors where the former box-store chain was once a major player: Marshalls, Hobby Lobby, PetSmart and Dollar Tree.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
  • These include local pharmacies, pharmacies in hospitals or clinics, or chain stores like Walgreens and CVS.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Salem, circa 1955: Before the opening of Walmart, many small-town main streets were home to a Ben Franklin dime store, one of which was under the franchise that gave Sam Walton his start in Newport, 1945.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Werewolf Lawyer has its own distinct look, a pulp paperback straight from the golden age of dime store novels done by Ian Klarer.
    Jef Rouner, Chron, 14 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The number of upcoming sports events was the factor that was most heavily weighted in the study, but other factors such as the number of green spaces and thrift shops in the city were also considered.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The funky thrift shop sells upcycled clothing, jewelry and vinyl records, and is open Thursday through Sunday.
    Axios Denver, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The 129-room, Michelin Key property is housed within a foundation that was once the T.B. Rayl Co. department store and Singer Sewing Machine Company building.
    Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • At the time, Frasers was already a substantial minority shareholder in the ailing department store.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 1 Nov. 2024

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