How to Use grocery in a Sentence

grocery

noun
  • She stopped to pick up some groceries for supper.
  • Park in the back of the parking lot at the grocery store.
    — Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
  • And grocery prices fell for the first time in 2 1/2 years.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The cost of the grocery store, the cost of the pump, everything's gone up.
    — Maya Richard-Craven, Men's Health, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But the first place to look is in the produce section of the grocery store.
    — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This comes on the heels of grocery prices plunging the most on record this last month.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
  • That would put the deadline for a new grocery store in May 2024.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But the store will be more than a place to buy basic groceries.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Watts allegedly told the boy that Brown was at the grocery store and that the boy was to spend the night at Watts' house.
    — Pamela Engel, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • This year, the beloved grocery store will not be open on the holiday.
    — Yaa Bofah, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2022
  • But to focus only on grocery-store prices is to miss the full costs of eggs.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The grocery store footage showed Murray buying an item left at the scene of the arson.
    — oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For a long time, the neighborhood had no grocery store.
    — Lauryn Azu and Joe States, Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The Reds, on the other hand, are getting $5 million a year from a grocery store chain.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • This includes shopping for groceries, walking the dog, and of course walking up and down the stairs.
    — Ana Morales, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The program has grown over the years, and this year, every student in 12 Durham schools took home a bag of groceries to take home for the break.
    — Nathan Bomey, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The grocery store chain will be open at 7 a.m. as usual, but with reduced hours.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Walmart passed other chains to have the largest grocery market share in D-FW in 2004.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • Suicides are just the cost of doing business, like spoilage in a grocery store.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
  • See experts’ top foods for hair growth ahead, and get ready to go grocery shipping.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Afterward, head next door to their British grocery shop to pick up sweets and loose-leaf teas to take home.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Freezing food is a great way to extend the life of your meals and groceries—and save you cash and valuable meal-prep time.
    — Samantha Vincenty, Women's Health, 6 May 2023
  • The cargo area is massive and can hold a lot of items, from a diaper bag to your groceries.
    — Jessica Booth, Parents, 2 Aug. 2023
  • If New Yorkers can be banned from a Rangers game, they can be banned from the grocery store or the pharmacy.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The ground lease also calls for the inclusion of a small grocery store that will be required to sell fresh food.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Amazon has been dabbling in the grocery business for years.
    — Dan Gallagher, wsj.com, 12 May 2023
  • Look for chestnuts in the produce section of your grocery store.
    — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Jan. 2023
  • At the touch of a button, Power Cool quickly cools down your groceries or even wine.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The tab for my total week’s groceries: a fairly reasonable $80.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2025
  • President Trump's ongoing trade dispute with countries like Mexico and Canada that could trigger higher grocery prices.
    — Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025

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