How to Use bodega in a Sentence

bodega

noun

• The bodega down the street from me has the best salads.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• The man works in a bodega across the street from the collapse site.
  — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2023
• The guy who runs the bodega across the street from my apartment.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2018
• The bodega and the salon are the heart of the neighborhood.
  — Chris Stanton, Vulture, 14 June 2021
• The bodega will stock items like beer, wine and snacks.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2021
• At the heart of the movie is a bodega owner who dreams for (and sings about) a better life.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 20 Mar. 2023
• Wear them on your next trip to Europe, or with a pair of chinos to the bodega down the street.
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2024
• The graffiti has been scrubbed off the bodega on my block.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 10 June 2020
• Cheeses, tinned fish and other items from the bodega will be featured on the bar menu.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2021
• So the culture’s always in the bodega, on the corners, in the hoop earrings, in the baby hairs.
  — Shirley Ju, Variety, 5 May 2022
• What do the Yale Club, Pret a Manger and your corner bodega have in common?
  — WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
• At the corner bodega where neighbors talk about how there is no work and no way to pay the bills.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• There’s something about street cats and bodega cats and the survival instinct side of the city.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2024
• The new space will feature a bottle shop, wine bar and bodega.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2021
• As before, Thamee sells spices and some of its condiments from a small bodega near the door.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• These bodegas, as the Spanish call them, are what draw tourists to Ribera del Duero.
  — Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The guy at your local bodega will, in a pinch, sign for your UPS package or hold keys for your friend.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Sep. 2017
• On the way home, Yuskavage picked up a white candle from a bodega and put it in her window.
  — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2021
• Though the effort has now outgrown Cleo's space, the bodega emerged as just one of many partners.
  — Ryan Martin, Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2020
• Castro arrived in Cleveland in the 1950s and opened the mom-and-pop bodega not long after.
  — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
• The bodega is at 122 Hillside Ave. in the Behind the Rocks neighborhood.
  — Ruth Bruno, courant.com, 28 June 2018
• The insulation, the bubble, moves with you, at least as far as the bodega on the corner.
  — P. E. Moskowitz, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2022
• What about the weed-selling bodegas and trucks that had been sprouting up across the city throughout the summer?
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The family of a man who was killed by a New York bodega worker is planning to sue the store.
  — Max Thornberry, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
• Tours offer a front-row seat to the rum-making process, from the extraction of juice to the aging of rums in a bodega.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
• Video shows the suspects enter the bodega and dragging the victim out onto the street.
  — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 13 July 2018
• True New Yorkers know that a trip to the bodega is an essential run.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
• The singing and dancing play out in tight quarters (in a bodega, a salon, a car service) as well as in streets and parks.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• Sometimes bodega staff will adopt a kitten from a litter in need of homes.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• Guests — many with smartphones held high — entered through a hidden door in what was meant to be a Swedish bodega stocked with Ikea beverages, snacks and home products.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024