How to Use supermarket in a Sentence

supermarket

noun
  • Eleven of the people shot at the supermarket were Black and two were white.
    — Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 17 May 2022
  • Some of them may reach supermarket shelves in the next few years.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2022
  • Small in size, the bodega was for the new migrant a supermarket for the soul.
    — Johnson Lui, Allure, 24 May 2022
  • The first bags of the reserve rice have now gone on sale in supermarkets.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The footage from the supermarket has been online since 2018.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In 2021 the first supermarket with True Prices opened it’s doors.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • One athlete said he was pushed in the supermarket for talking about the need to change the school’s name.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022
  • The rising cost of the weekly trip to the grocery store, which just hit a 40-year high in the U.S., does not start and end at the supermarket.
    — Katarina Kahlmann, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Start with the top of a fresh pineapple from the supermarket and add a touch of the tropics to your home or garden.
    — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Sources told the tabloid that staff took turns taking a suitcase to the supermarket to fill with wine.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Note: To trim the prep time, get a mix of celery, onion and carrot from the supermarket salad bar.
    — Bonnie S. Benwick, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Grocery prices at the main supermarket in town have soared in the past two years, and takeout costs at least $20.
    — Jack Healy, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The Spinneys supermarket chain helped pay for the stairs, the glass, the second-floor office, and the shelves, for example.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
  • People would hear that voice in the supermarket from two aisles away and wander over to take a peek.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Eleven of the 13 people shot at the supermarket were Black, police have said.
    — Reed Albergotti, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
  • That left an Albertsons store as the last chain supermarket in the area.
    — Kristine De Leon, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Woodard had chips, soft drinks, candy and served lasagna bought from a supermarket and heated up in the oven.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • Dinner: Get a nice salmon filet at the supermarket, not too big.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Ukraine is again sending apples to the Arab world and its supermarket shelves are full.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The nixed deal comes even as the supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons are trying to join forces.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The couple moved to the parking lot of a nearby supermarket, hoping for the best.
    — Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Kick-off January in comfort with cozy looks that take you from the couch to the supermarket in style.
    — Nora Colomer, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The bustling newsroom, which Daily News and Union staff shared, was as big as a supermarket.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The best supermarket flour tortillas are soft but not limp, and chewy but not gummy.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Aug. 2023
  • From the supermarket to the furniture store to the gas station, consumers are paying more to get the same — or even less.
    — NBC News, 13 July 2021
  • The scene in the supermarket that goes round in a loop in one cut uses a technique employed in anime.
    — Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Headquarters is at the end of a dirt road, just east of the Arizona line, more than 50 miles from the nearest supermarket.
    — Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2021
  • Found the price of some chocolates has risen as high as 67% in U.K. supermarkets as a result of these cost pressures.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The design plan shows spaces including supermarket, princess, cake shop and kitchen playsets for imaginative play next to a toddler area and a sandbox on one side of the space, with ball blaster, tube slides and trampoline on the other.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2025
  • Health inspectors gave the supermarket a yellow placard after discovering that a pan of beef dumplings left on the front counter measured outside the safe temperature range.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2025

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