How to Use grocery in a Sentence

grocery

noun
  • She stopped to pick up some groceries for supper.
  • This includes shopping for groceries, walking the dog, and of course walking up and down the stairs.
    Ana Morales, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Walmart passed other chains to have the largest grocery market share in D-FW in 2004.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • See experts’ top foods for hair growth ahead, and get ready to go grocery shipping.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Freezing food is a great way to extend the life of your meals and groceries—and save you cash and valuable meal-prep time.
    Samantha Vincenty, Women's Health, 6 May 2023
  • The cargo area is massive and can hold a lot of items, from a diaper bag to your groceries.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Amazon has been dabbling in the grocery business for years.
    Dan Gallagher, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • For those looking to do all their grocery shopping in one place, Weee! is a great option.
    Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2023
  • That's thanks in part to easing prices for gasoline, airline fares, used cars, and groceries.
    Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
  • At 20 liters each, these are big enough to fit camping gear, food, clothes, or your local grocery haul.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But this isn’t just a grocery haul for Haley, who is married to Chase, the store manager.
    Noah Alcala Bach, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The next clip cuts to Dan fighting an assailant in a grocery aisle with his giggling toddler strapped to his chest.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
  • At a food bank just west of Denver, a migrant from Venezuela adds groceries to her cart as the child on her hip grips a banana.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Price growth for a grocery basket of common items peaked in early 2023.
    Joe Murphy, NBC News, 12 July 2023
  • Here’s a list of which grocery and retail chains will be open on Easter Sunday.
    Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Just how did Michelle Duggar do 10 loads of laundry a day or grocery shop for a family of 21?
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
  • The family ran a small grocery, had strong work ethics and values, but no athletes.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In the literal sense, Green and team strive to make groceries more accessible to get their hands on.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a large walk-in pantry with motion sensing lights and a garage pantry access door for easy grocery handing.
    Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This was in the early days of the pandemic, when many of us were wiping down our groceries and staying inside for days on end.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • If your other hand is holding groceries, a kid or anything else, this could be useful for you.
    WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The walls are lined with shelves of groceries; there’s a refrigerator case stocked with jars of pasta sauce and fresh cheeses and bundles of cut herbs.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Construction has moved briskly this spring on a new grocery co-op store along Woodward in Detroit's North End.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023
  • In May, food prices jumped 6.7% compared to the previous year, with grocery prices rising 5.8%, the BLS reported last month.
    Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Please don’t get into an altercation in the grocery line.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Flash to the current day where our four favorite crime-fighting turtles are flipping around the tops of New York City buildings to pick up groceries.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Strawberry fields flooded Strawberries may be one of the first foods with higher prices at the grocery.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
  • To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks on their carts.
    Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Some even sell everyday groceries like milk and eggs, too, for an efficient one-stop shop.
    Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 6 May 2023
  • This card pairs 3% cash back rewards on gas, groceries and online shopping.
    Aaron Hurd, wsj.com, 18 Oct. 2023

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