How to Use department store in a Sentence

department store

noun
  • The department store offers free delivery on orders of $35 or more.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 28 July 2022
  • London’s most famous department store gets a fizzy new champagne bar from Moët & Chandon.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Nordstrom’s founders really, really want to take the department store private.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The defunct toy store has signed a deal that will put it in every Macy’s department store in the next few months, giving it an extended afterlife.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 July 2022
  • More:This former Bronzeville department store was covered with metal cladding in the 1970s.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • Music videos for his new album are partially set in the iconic Samaritaine department store in Paris.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Though the town is not lacking in shopping experiences, there isn’t quite anything like the department store, and so a weekend-long stretch of activities was the only way to go.
    Vogue, 25 July 2022
  • Shoppers are largely turning to online retailers for their purchases, and large department stores are facing fewer customers and weaker sales.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2024
  • During his lunch break from a department store, Elcock met guitarist Alejandro Rios at the nearby pizza shop where Rios worked.
    Max Bell, SPIN, 29 July 2022
  • The mall once featured leading American department stores like Macy’s, Target and Kohl’s.
    Chase Hunter, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The retail giant also expanded its business further by acquiring a company that operates department stores.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Asia, 13 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
  • 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
  • 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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