12 examples of shopgirls in sentences

These stood before a brick building that seemed like a factory, while from its doors other crowds of workmen and some shopgirls were rushing into the street and several policemen were shaking their clubs and running here and there in a sort of panic.

"Why, they were taking a moving picture, that was all, and the workmen and shopgirls and policemen were all actors.

"Our hours are worse than those of shopgirls, for the early morning sun is the best part of the day for our work.

Some ribbons here and there brighten up the shop-windows: bare-headed shopgirls pass by with a smile on their lips; men look after them as they trip along.

Also, by way of underplot, a shopgirl, oppressed by the deadly monotony and narrowness of her life, thinks of escaping from it by marrying a middle-aged widowerand doesn't do it.

* Miss Herford's inimitable monologues, being each the apotheosis of some typical Bromidea shopgirl, a country dressmaker, a bargain-hunter and so onbecome, through her art, intensely sulphitic.

There must be some shopgirls in this crowd.

"Yes, dear child," she insists (how different this use of the word sounds from when the Lady of the Bluffs uses the universal "my dear" impartially to mistress and maid, shopgirl and guest), "you not only belong to the last century, but as far back in it as myself, and I am fifty-five, full measure.

The shopgirls of Paris threw flowers from the windows as the car passed.

The shopgirls of Paris screamed with laughter at these brawny lads in "jupes," and surrounded them with shameless mirth, while Jock grinned from ear to ear and Sandy, more bashful, coloured to the roots of his fiery hair.

Even an indifferent shopgirl stared with interest after the pair as they left the place, wondering if, after all, flowers weren't more effective on the quiet swells than on those of the dashing attire.

When I first went to Europe I had all of the average American woman's timidity about asserting herself in the face of a shopgirl or salesman.

12 examples of  shopgirls  in sentences