How to Use department store in a Sentence

department store

noun
  • A number of women are now preparing legal claims against the department store.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2024
  • At one time, the building was home to the Gidding-Jenny department store.
    David Lyman, The Enquirer, 1 June 2022
  • The department store has drawn the attention of an activist investor and an array of bidders.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 7 June 2022
  • The department store White Front was having a special giveaway.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • Morse started her career in the days when a department store’s window displays were known as a vital marketing tool to reel in customers.
    Megan Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, tween boys are singularly focused on building cologne collections that look like the display of a department store.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The department store chain has attempted a handful of approaches to draw in customers and stave off competitors, but the strategies have not led to major improvements.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 8 June 2022
  • Saks Fifth Avenue just entered the high jewelry game and now, the luxury department store is expanding its offerings yet again.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2024
  • So all the makeup that Kathy is wearing is expensive, higher-end department store items that Madeline Kingston would actually own.
    Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The mannequins in the old department store stand naked.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The elves made their debut in the 1950s in the windows of Shillito's department store.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 29 Dec. 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Go car spotting in the Knightsbridge area around the pricey Harrods department store.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 31 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The Italian fashion house just opened a chic new pop-up cafe in Harrods department store.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Yesterday, my husband and I went to a department store to buy a pair of slippers for him.
    Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The episode shows Raven getting passed over for a job in a department store in favor of her white friend Chelsea (Anneliese van der Pol).
    Liv Facey, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The store went on to become a successful chain in the Milwaukee area and branched out in 1962 with its first department store.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
  • The websites of big department stores like Nordstrom or Saks are better.
    Ian Salisbury, wsj.com, 22 Nov. 2023
  • When first popularized, it was worn by men and women alike, but in the 1920s, U.S. department stores claimed blue for boys and pink for girls.
    Karena Phan, Fortune, 21 July 2023

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