How to Use department store in a Sentence

department store

noun
  • The mannequins in the old department store stand naked.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This is one of the department store's best sales of the year, and no one should miss out on it.
    Eva Thomas, PEOPLE.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • This Macy’s is the largest department store in the United States and among the largest in the world.
    Meena Thiruvengadam, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The elves made their debut in the 1950s in the windows of Shillito's department store.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The department store chain tested the concept with 200 stores in the fall.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Carroll claimed that she was raped by Trump in a department store in the mid-1990s.
    Mark Hosenball, The New Republic, 13 June 2022
  • The demise of the the store in the middle-class suburb, 15 miles south of New York City, is the tale of the death of the discount department store writ small.
    CBS News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The department store opened its first small-format store in 2020 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Mabel asked, on our way to work at the department store, bits of snow catching in her hair.
    Colin Heasley, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The department store building was demolished in 2014 to make way for the Whole Foods store.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The department store offers free gift wrap on most items all year.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Carroll has claimed that around 30 years ago in a department store, Trump raped her.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The demise of the the store in the middle-class suburb, 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of New York City, is the tale of the death of the discount department store writ small.
    NBC News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Macy's closed its department store across the street from Fountain Square in the heart of Downtown in 2018.
    Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 22 June 2022
  • The case stemmed from what Carroll described as a chance encounter with Trump at a high-end department store in the mid-1990s.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 28 June 2023
  • Young soon dropped out of school and took a job in the appliance department of a department store.
    Stuart Silverstein, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Nordstrom devotees know summer is the best time of the year to score deep discounts at the department store.
    Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2024
  • The department store chain has a market cap of $7.26 billion.
    John Navin, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Go car spotting in the Knightsbridge area around the pricey Harrods department store.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
  • At one time, the building was home to the Gidding-Jenny department store.
    David Lyman, The Enquirer, 1 June 2022
  • The department store converted its restaurant space to the Silver Grille in the 1930s.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The department store giant has so far avoided the worst of the glut of goods that has tripped up so many retailers.
    Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In 1901, the year that Queen Victoria died, Daniel department store was born.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And this scene seems to be based on her book signing at Harrods department store in London in March of ’99.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
  • She has been caught shoplifting a pair of earrings from Svensen’s department store.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2022
  • Maria and her friends work on a cleaning crew at Gimbels department store.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The Italian fashion house just opened a chic new pop-up cafe in Harrods department store.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The scene after an explosion at a department store in Taichung, Taiwan, on Thursday.
    Reuters, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • There’s also a downsizing trend in retail, which could see department stores closing at a higher clip beyond this year, Svec said.
    Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'department store.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: