How to Use bazaar in a Sentence

bazaar

noun
  • Pym’s subtly comic stories of spinsters, vicars and church bazaars, like Rosa Lewis’s boiled bacon and broad beans, one day went out of style.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • He was born and raised in nearby Nablus, an ancient city with crumbling palaces, a famous bazaar and a reputation for resistance.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 29 May 2017
  • And while most corporate rates are permanent, both parties are open to debating that rate as well, making next year an open bazaar on tax policies and priorities.
    Hans Nichols, Axios, 8 Sep. 2024
  • In the past, local security services cracked down on illegal wildlife trafficking, even conducting shop-to-shop searches in Aswan’s downtown bazaar.
    National Geographic, 23 June 2017
  • In the shadow of the Loop's skyscrapers, there once was an open-air bazaar with sights, sounds and smells that seemed magically transported across time and space from some Old World village.
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2017
  • To make its mobile app as indispensable as possible, Facebook has introduced live streams, a booming virtual bazaar and free access to some of the best journalism.
    David Pierson, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • On the back wall of the last stall in the bathroom at the bazaar.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • During the '50s and '60s, the hospital held functions focused on healthy living and that included events including bazaars and baby contests.
    NOLA.com, 2 July 2017
  • The bazaar will be open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. each day of the festival.
    Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The men chopping fruit and meat in the bazaar use knives that are chained to their stalls.
    Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The bazaar will open at 9:30 a.m. and vendors will sell their crafts.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And, of course, there’s that bazaar known as the Internet.
    Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • But behind the scenes of the peace deal was a Middle East weapons bazaar.
    New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Fun fact: Most of the shops at the bazaar decide their own timing.
    Sarvesh Talreja, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
  • Near the site of the city’s old bazaar, which was demolished to make way for a new dam.
    The New York Times, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Like the bazaar in Tehran where hundreds of sweaty peasants fight over the last loaf of bread.
    Nicole Najafi, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2021
  • What: This will be the eighth season for this market and bazaar.
    Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The building the man was shot in appeared to be a bazaar with shops inside.
    Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Ghousaddin is a farmer in western Afghanistan, in the same stretch of desert as the Bakwa bazaar.
    Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • In another part of town, not too far away, the bazaar and the markets were filled ahead of the weekend.
    Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The dried fruits and exotic spices in souks and bazaars inspired her.
    Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • The church bazaar includes many bakers and makers and draws a large crowd.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Camel trains no longer arrive here, but the bazaar area gets pretty busy.
    Lisa Morrow, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But in the grubby bazaar of politician-buying, the NRA is a bit player.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Sofra, a Turkish bakery and café, is designed to look and feel like a bazaar.
    Lucas Fried, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • My best bazaar purchase was: a Moghul swing in green enamel.
    Margot Dougherty, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The Turkish buy their dondurma from a street cart or at a bazaar.
    CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
  • For about two decades, James DiZoglio has run a bazaar to sell some of the most cherished tickets in sports.
    Alan Blinder, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Amiri strings cables among the works to give the feel of telephone wires crowding a real-life bazaar.
    Ted Loos, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Oases is broken down into three sections: an all-day café, the shopping bazaar and a restaurant.
    Emily Burns, WWD, 25 July 2024

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