ADJECTIVE
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purchased; not homemade
a store-bought dress
my boughten clothes
How To Use store-bought In A Sentence
- My store-bought long dresses are too "dressy" and made of rayon and other finer fabrics that are not suitable for housework. Sewing Simple Clothing
- I put the "eye candy" on top of that and then used a store-bought gel decorator frosting to do the "bloodshot" effect. Archive 2008-11-01
- Get rid of the bulky boxes the shoes came in, pop them into homemade or store-bought shoe bags, and line them up in neat rows inside the drawers.
- Rationalization: The potato-y qualities of the steroidal supermarket berries are mitigated by cooking, and the store-bought rhubarb is just fine, usually. Toast:
- Chaat masala is a store-bought mixture of all those tangy spices that go into chaats, and it gives the tikkis some extra oomph. Archive 2007-03-01
- Homemade crackers are more pleasing than store-bought ones - and no more work to make than cookies.
- A couple of weeks ago a friend asked me to transfer the music from his store-bought audio CDs onto a CDR in MP3 format for his car.
- Gee's Bend was a very poor community that could ill afford luxuries like store-bought blankets and bed coverings.
- She wasn't a snob about cooking everything from scratch though, she also had her store-bought delicacies.
- Some of the girls complained about the gray uniforms we had to wear, but I liked the way they leveled out the differences between those who could afford fancy store-bought clothes and those of us, like me, who had only home-dyed beechnut brown dresses. Half Broke Horses