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How to use drugstore in a sentence

24 example sentences · noun

Drugstore means synonym of pharmacy, especially a small standalone general store which includes a pharmacy. Example: “The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.”

More sentences with drugstore

  • The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.From the entry carry
  • Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.From the entry chew
  • He did a runner after robbing the drugstore.From the entry runner
  • The active ingredient in both products is dimethicone, a skin protectant also found in less-expensive drugstore creams.2009 February 26, Jennifer A. Kingson, “Singling Out Eczema Sufferers”, in New York Times. From the entry protectant
  • She stood indecisively in front of the drugstore, wanting a Coke icee.1994, Myrna Marler, “Encounter”, in Greg A. Berryman, editor, Kula Manu, Laie, Haw.: Brigham Young University–Hawaii, page 39. From the entry indecisively
  • Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 89. From the entry malt
  • This wasn't some punk carving Harlem sunsets on a drugstore attendant.1976, Frank Ormsby, “War Memorial”, in Seamus Heaney, editor, Soundings, volume 3, page 15. From the entry Harlem sunset
  • Jeez, there's drugstores on every block, and if you can't read, you can at least reckernize them.1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 51. From the entry reckernize
  • At the next stop he got off the bus and made straight for the nearest drugstore.1954, Ian Fleming, “Nigger Heaven”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 44. From the entry paybox
  • In drugstores, it’s sold under the name Brilliant Green.2017 May 10, Oleg Kashin, “Russian Terrorism Now Comes in Green!”, in The New York Times. From the entry zelyonka
  • This system works at any drugstore chain.2012, Rachel Singer Gordon, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing. From the entry after-reward
  • In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry recession
  • All major brands of nail-polish remover now have an acetone-free variety, which is easy to find at major drugstores.2005, Debra Lynn Dadd, Home Safe Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household Products, Jeremy P.…. From the entry nail-polish remover
  • Since you mention getting the wrong size, I suspect you are talking about the drugstore ones which are pretty flimsy.2002 August 31, Klarissa, “OT(nails fake or real )”, in alt.gothic.fashion (Usenet), retrieved 19 May 2022. From the entry xdress
  • Six antihomeopathy lawsuits were filed last year in California, claiming that drugstores that sell these preparations are deceiving the public.1996, Civilization: the magazine of the Library of Congress. From the entry antihomeopathy
  • When any of these jazz-age drugstore cowboys starts trying to fool around with his sister, he won't mince his words.1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 21, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan. From the entry drugstore cowboy
  • Instead, she retrieved an electric men's all-in-one groomer from the bag of supplies from the drugstore and proceeded to give him a military buzz cut.2009 January 1, Linda Turner, Bounty Hunter's Woman, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry groomer
  • When we first came to California and we started putting on Westerns, there were no riders in Hollywood; they were all drugstore cowboys.1974, Film Heritage. From the entry drugstore cowboy
  • Across the asphalt that was sufficiently semifluid to receive and embalm millions of starsharp stones and bravely gay candywrappers a drugstore twinkled artificial enticement.1964, Brown, Leonard, A Quarto of Modern Literature, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 554. From the entry candywrapper
  • The local cooks would get some smurfs to buy boxes of Sudafed at all the drugstores in a hundred-mile radius, then pay them off in product.2020, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts, page 22. From the entry smurf
  • Selling multimixers to corner drugstores with fountains, he was made intensely aware of the flight to the suburbs because it took away business from the drugstores.2006, Jonathan Feinstein, The Nature of Creative Development, page 349. From the entry multimixer
  • But self-absorption is quite another story — as my new flame, Karyn, reminded me when we hit drugstore number five in an Indiana-Jonesian quest for my favorite hair gel.2000, Glamour, volume 98, numbers 1-4, page 76. From the entry Indiana Jonesian
  • Clean your works either with rubbing alcohol (available in drugstores), a household bleach solution (three tablespoons of bleach in a cup of water), or boiling water.1996, Paul Harding Douglas with Laura Pinsky, The Essential AIDS Fact Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry work
  • Vandals, who couldn't get a Journal any other way, razorbladed Little Princesses sections out of reserved drugstore copies to the great indignation of the ultimate purchasers.1968, Bruce Gould, Beatrice Blackmar Gould, American Story, page 243. From the entry razorblade

Meaning of drugstore

  1. noun Synonym of pharmacy, especially a small standalone general store which includes a pharmacy.

Full definition of drugstore

Questions about drugstore in a sentence

How do you use drugstore in a sentence?
Drugstore is used as a noun. For example: “The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.”
What is a short sentence with drugstore?
“This system works at any drugstore chain.”
What does drugstore mean?
Drugstore means synonym of pharmacy, especially a small standalone general store which includes a pharmacy.

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