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How to use grocer in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Grocer means a person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery. Example: “The grocer delivered his goods by cart.”

Examples of grocer by meaning

nounA person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.

  • “Cadiz isn't going to become the garbage dump capital of the world,” said Patrick Erbacher, a grocer who is vice president of the Cadiz Jaycees.1974 July 6, “Ohio Town Opposes A Plan for Dumping New York Garbage”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024

More sentences with grocer

  • The grocer delivered his goods by cart.From the entry cart
  • It flew off the shelves, and the grocer came back asking for more.2006 October 15, Ylan Q. Mui, “Tastes From Home”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024, Business. From the entry Kangwon
  • The village grocer was "the only unfarming person and the only merchant in the village."2001, Bernard S. Phillips, Beyond Sociology's Tower of Babel, page 19. From the entry unfarming
  • The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry groceria
  • He is now 14 and still living in Henley, but now in the home of William Horsley—a “grocer and porkman.”2011, Clarke Church, Forebears and Antecedents: A Family History, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry porkman
  • Audrey and crew even squeezed frail grocer Frank Morgan, the victim, into adding his John Hancock to the parole petition.2005, Dary Matera, John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry John Hancock
  • The beautiful and often exotic produce available in farmers markets and specialty grocers today are a welcome addition to a crudité.2003 September 2, Nicole Aloni, Cooking for Company: All the Recipes You Need for Simple, Elegant Entertaining at Home, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry crudité
  • To unprove Hamel's point, one need look no further than Webvan, the online grocer without a single real store.2003, Kirk Cheyfitz, Thinking Inside the Box, page 15. From the entry unprove
  • Furthermore, rural grocers gave a slightly higher price for eggs if the money was taken out in trade.1986, Deborah Fink, Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition, and Change, page 59. From the entry take out in trade
  • What little I eat comes from a grocería about ten miles down Highway 31, a place where the migrants buy their food.2013, Will Ludwigsen, “The Ghost Factory”, in In Search Of and Others, Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry grocería
  • The corner grocer delivered the week′s order in brown paper bags and the bread man made deliveries every morning in his horse-drawn van.1999, Jim Keays, His Master's Voice: The Masters Apprentices: The bad boys of sixties rock ′n′ roll, page 3. From the entry happy little vegemite
  • I could not imagine Cadwallader Davies the grocer, in his near-to-waking dream, riding on horseback, two-gunned and Cody-bold, through the cactused prairies.1954, Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishing, published 1981, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry cactused
  • The grocer paled as he listened.1947, The New Yorker, volume 23, page 21. From the entry zucchino
  • There is likewise the necessity to "unload" misbuys in case the grocer finds himself "stung" with some new commodity that seems glued to the shelves.1938, National Grocers Bulletin, volume 25, page 20. From the entry misbuy
  • Parotta is a layered Indian flatbread that is time-consuming to make, but you can buy an excellent version frozen from Indian grocers – just don’t tell anyone.2013 August 2, Stevie Parle, “A meat cheat? Recipes with aubergine”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry parotta
  • He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick, he paid the bills.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 190. From the entry tick
  • "But here is the good Bolsover to your rescue." The worthy grocer had caught sight of them through the window and came bustling out, untying his white apron.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry to one's rescue

Meaning of grocer

  1. noun A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.
  2. noun A retail store that sells groceries, a grocery store.
  3. verb To sell groceries; to act as a grocer.

Full definition of grocer

Questions about grocer in a sentence

How do you use grocer in a sentence?
Grocer is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The grocer delivered his goods by cart.”
What is a short sentence with grocer?
“The grocer paled as he listened.”
What does grocer mean?
Grocer means a person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grocer (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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