How To Use Greengrocer In A Sentence
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In one scene he almost runs a greengrocer over and sends boxes of fruit flying through the air.
The Sun
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What is available in the city centre is something that most supermarkets can't provide: the personal service that a market like the Oastler Centre can offer to those wanting to buy meat, fish and greengroceries.
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East Greenwich is desperately in need of a proper greengrocers within a few minutes walk.
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The typical Czech "greengrocer" - Havel's famous description of the symbolic Czech Everyman - did not believe Soviet propaganda, but felt helplessly enmeshed in it.
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There is also the full range of greengrocery items.
Archive 2007-02-01
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At the local greengrocer, the oranges were the sweet kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ask a greengrocer to get you a root of fresh horseradish, which looks like a dirty, knobbly parsnip.
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It was an oddly snobbish thing to say about an international tycoon, and Banks spat out the word 'greengrocer' as though selling food were a form of mass murder.
Fear and Loathing in Europe
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Greengrocers lined the sidewalks with the last of the jabalieh tomatoes, big meaty pink and green fruits whose rippling flesh puckered into circles like little baboon butts mooning you all in a row.
Day of Honey
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The local butchers and greengrocers look great, but I never once saw the word ‘organic’ on anything.
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Joey had bought a packet of sausages for them, at the greengrocer's nearby, and together they cooked the raw meat over the fire.
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I also go to the farmer's market that's started nearby, but then the greengrocer pointed out to me that it's damaging his business.
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In those days there was a lot going on in the village, which boasted not only seven grocers, but also seven pubs, two greengrocers, two butchers, a chemists, a haberdashers and a post office.
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What she misses is the days when you could go into your local greengrocer to be confronted by heaps of fresh cauliflowers and swedes recently plucked from the earth by local farmers.
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There's a proper greengrocer's, a butcher, a baker, a haberdashery and a good old-fashioned ironmonger among others.
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But when its owners sued All American Cash Register and TEC America Corp. last July over the glitch, the greengrocery fired the first shot in what some are predicting will be a protracted -- and costly -- legal war over the so-called Year 2000 Bug.
Beyond The Year 2000 Bug: A New Wave Of Lawsuits
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There are some "desperate willins" (as Sam Weller called the greengrocer at the swarry) who fail to see much more than types in
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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It is currently working with a small Newquay grower to source greengrocery, going as far as to work out specific varieties of produce to be grown throughout the year especially for its menu.
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Susan enthused over the quality and colour of local apples, and the greengrocer's wife, with adoring eyes, offered her a bagful free.
SPLITTING
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Eventually we got everyone onto the roof of the greengrocer's next door - it's a good solid stone building.
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He now says the inside of his cab is full of fruit and looks like a greengrocer's shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a little sweetshop, a grocer's, a greengrocer's and a butcher's.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had this delivered to the basement flat that he had recently occupied under a greengrocer's shop in Islington.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm amazed at how little it has changed. There is still a deli at No 31 and a greengrocer's next door.
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The fresh fruits are on sale for most of the year from greengrocers and delicatessens.
The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home
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Backdrops like scene changes in a theatre of greengrocery.
Market Forces
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I want the butcher's shops, greengrocers and bakers and so forth that have now all moved to Clifton Moor and Monks Cross.
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Food was delivered to the house by the grocer, greengrocer, baker and butcher.
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Sam called the greengrocer a 'desp'rate willin,' and ordered
The Pickwick Papers
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There was a little sweetshop, a grocer's, a greengrocer's and a butcher's.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz paused in this place, to see whether the jury smiled at his joke; but as nobody took it but the greengrocer, whose sensitiveness on the subject was very probably occasioned by his having subjected a chaise – cart to the process in question on that identical morning, the learned Serjeant considered it advisable to undergo a slight relapse into the dismals before he concluded.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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He now says the inside of his cab is full of fruit and looks like a greengrocer's shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was decided that a row of shops should be included to house a newsagent, post office, greengrocer, grocery, fishmonger and a butcher.
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At the local greengrocer, the oranges were the sweet kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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When buying the potatoes, ask your greengrocer for the flouriest possible, as this will ensure a lightness to the pancake.
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From 'Punch' to Terry the greengrocer is a good step, but, let me tell you, he
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Whereas if you buy your locally grown apples from the local greengrocer, they will employ the local accountant, solicitor and carpenter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Susan enthused over the quality and colour of local apples, and the greengrocer's wife, with adoring eyes, offered her a bagful free.
SPLITTING
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He had this delivered to the basement flat that he had recently occupied under a greengrocer's shop in Islington.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kale is also in season this month and home-grown produce can be found at local greengrocers and supermarkets.
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Ultimately it is of no consequence whether one writes Asbos or asbo’s or ASBOs so long as the result is comprehensible, and the apostrophe in asbo’s can be justified (see above) whereas the one in the plural potato’s cannot (this is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe).
Those apostrophes
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Nevertheless, it is still a significant fact that while many of the butchers 'establishments possess quite an attractive and inviting appearance, on the contrary those devoted to the sale of greengrocery are represented by dingy-looking places, and by a collection of faded vegetables which seem always to be apologising for being on view at all.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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When my mother was a home economics teacher she taught the full gamut of the subject, purchasing, costing, dietary values of food, how to shop in a butchers, greengrocers and fishmongers.
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There are a dozen good-sized pieces of cardboard, each bearing a colored illustration of one of the "trades" following, viz.: a milliner, a fishmonger, a greengrocer, plumber, a music-seller, a toyman, mason,
Entertainments for Home, Church and School
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Whereas if you buy your locally grown apples from the local greengrocer, they will employ the local accountant, solicitor and carpenter.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the merchant’s wife is amusing and occupying her thus, the butcher gives her the nastiest meat; the baker, the worstmade and most short-weighted bread; the grocer, the worst oil; the chandler, the runniest wax; and the greengrocer, the oldest and most rotten greens and vegetables; and thus with everything else.
Savoring The Past
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Miles and miles and miles of them, and not a green thing to be seen except the cabbages in the greengrocers 'shops, and here and there some poor trails of creeping-jenny drooping from a dirty window-sill.
Harding's Luck
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Sam called the greengrocer a 'desp'rate willin,' and ordered a large bowl of punch -- two circumstances which seemed to raise him very much in the opinion of the selections.
The Pickwick papers
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The market in Witney includes everything from coats and shoes to toys and discounted greengrocery.
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I just hope that supermarkets do not put all butchers and greengrocers out of business, as I personally hate supermarkets.
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In the essay, he dissected what he called the "dictatorship of ritual" - the ossified Soviet bloc system under Leonid Brezhnev - and imagined what happens when an ordinary greengrocer stops displaying communist slogans and begins "living in truth," rediscovering "his suppressed identity and dignity.
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The greengrocer is now a florist called Darling Buds of Kent".
Patrice Peyret: Fix yourself a great e-trip with Keith Richards, an iPad and Google maps.
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There was a van came on Tuesdays selling fish and greengrocery.
A Place of Execution
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There would be whole rows of butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers, which were known as shambles.
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Ironically, though, if a greengrocery is placed opposite a supermarket it is more likely to thrive.
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In one scene he almost runs a greengrocer over and sends boxes of fruit flying through the air.
The Sun
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The Lewis family opened its first shop, a greengrocery, in Holloway Road, north London, in 1945.
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The months slid by and the frozen fruit was still waiting when this season's fruit arrived at the greengrocer.
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Most any prescriptivist you meet will have at the ready a set of examples of what is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe: ‘s used to form a plural when just s is called for.
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar
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He was already known for his innovation, especially for his popular "greengrocery", using rich green and yellow glazes on pots in the shape of cauliflowers and pineapples, artichokes and melons.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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Think of short-selling like a deal with your local greengrocer.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can get just about everything I'd get at the supermarket - there's a good greengrocers, a health food shop, a chemist, etc, and all independent.
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I do not have a butcher or greengrocer that I can truly call my own.
Times, Sunday Times
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That seems a good point to me, particularly in views of recent court cases where greengrocers were up before the beaks just because they sold fruit and veg in pounds when legislation now rules that goods must be sold in metric units.
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In the essay, he dissected what he called the "dictatorship of ritual" the ossified Soviet bloc system under Leonid Brezhnev and imagined what happens when an ordinary greengrocer stops displaying communist slogans and begins "living in truth," rediscovering "his suppressed identity and dignity.
News
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And clothiers, greengrocers, chemists, jewellers and fast food shops are all ensuring the areas around their premises are kept clean.
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The former footballer, former manager, sometime TV pundit, and wannabe crooner also ran a greengrocer in Dagenham.
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The first thing that struck my eye on approaching was the unusual appearance of the Wattles's greengrocery shop.
A Girl Among the Anarchists
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Think of short-selling like a deal with your local greengrocer.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a greengrocer with a ginger beard and he used to pay me a shilling for the day.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Thus, for instance, a dairywoman will fill the shelves of her compartment with pans of milk: her next neighbor is perhaps a small dealer in wood, coal and turf, and raises a dust accordingly; the greengrocer opposite makes the air damp and bitter with his heaps of neglected vegetables; while the butcher not only has
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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I do not have a butcher or greengrocer that I can truly call my own.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kale is also in season this month and home-grown produce can be found at local greengrocers and supermarkets.
