What is "drugstore"

Usage examples of "drugstore".

I skipped my flossing for once, did a left-handed toothbrushing, and annointed myself with an inexpensive drugstore cologne that smelled like lilies of the valley.

He studied the drugstore as best he could and did not see Astrand inside.

Quimby appeared at the drugstore to await Astrand, a smallish, hunch-shoulder taximan slowly cruised his cab outside on Twenty-seventh Street.

The drugstore in Lake City was probably still in the blackstrap molasses and yogurt era.

The tang of grape bubblegum mixes with the musk of drugstore aftershave.

Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms.

Suddenly in a better mood and ferociously hungry, he went back to the counter and bought two Big Macs for himself, and then, when Julia seemed done with her meal, he bought an ice cream cone for them to share, and then, when the opportunity seemed too good to pass up, he stopped on the way home at the drugstore, grabbed Julia and the ladybug mask, and went straight to the photo booth at the back.

She popped into the drugstore two blocks down from the offices, and asked Maureen Scrimm, who had her hair tinted for the celebrations and looked like the local tart, if she could borrow the phone book.

Since most of the early soda fountains began as one corner of the neighborhood drugstore, it was not a great coincidence that pharmacists such as Pemberton and Bradham invented soft drinks.

Before he got there, he had to skirt an untidy heap of paperbacks and an overturned display rack, the old-fashioned drugstore kind that turned around and around.

Selecting a phonebooth in a patron-teeming super drugstore, he dialed the familiar police number and stood holding the cold receiver to his ear.

Pope hurried home from the drugstore, and the Hardestys came from across the railroad tracks for a celebratory supper, but the younger Popes were too tired to enjoy it.

People who came into the drugstore always talked about them, what a good time they were having, how some were in fraternities and sororities if they had money, how this one was studying to be a doctor or something else you had to go to college to be.

Down the block was a drugstore, where she got more aspirin and a thermometer, cotton swabs and alcohol, and a bottle of nitroglycerin tablets.

Still, wherever he went, he was going to have to take some steps to hide his identity, and so he checked the commercial vidphone directory, wrote down the names of the nearest stores possessing those items he needed, and left the drugstore in search of them.