thrift store

Example Sentences

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My dad made it often when I was a kid — along with a white chicken chili that still feels mythic in my memory — and standing there in that thrift store aisle, fluorescent lights humming overhead, I felt something like a culinary lightning strike: I want to make a weeknight chicken that makes me feel this excited again.

From Salon

Somewhere between page 39 and the fluorescent lights of that thrift store, I realized what I actually wanted to make wasn’t a better “unfried chicken.”

From Salon

But with the help of Aunt Melissa’s closet and a tiny thrift store in Somewhere, she makes it work.

From Literature

It’s filled with their thrifted finds including silver champagne buckets, candlesticks, colorful Mexican ceramics and a tall rotating server from the Council Shop, a thrift store chain that supports low-income women and families in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

That is: Maybe you go out and buy five new-to-you dresses at a thrift store … then, feeling that you’ve done your duty as a responsible person, you pop into H&M and pick up more the next day.

From Slate