What is "newsagent"

Usage examples of "newsagent".

He thought he detected a possible newsagent, two under-graduates, three Government school teachers, compositors, shopkeepers, a writing bloke or two, and several nondescripts who might be anything from artists to itinerant hawkers.

He stood in the newsagents, staring at his own face, and knew his personal Armageddon was on the horizon.

She lived in a city where newsagents are numbered, I suppose, by the thousand, and she must have passed dozens of such shops in her daily shopping excursions, but as far as she was concerned that article on West Highland terriers might as well have been written in a missal stored away in some Buddhist monastery in Eastern Thibet.

I wander through the newsagents and check out the chicks in the magazines.

After lunch I recrossed the road to the newsagents, and took my place at the wailing wall of the pornography section.

Newsagents are occasionally prosecuted for selling them, and there would be many more prosecutions if the broadest jokes were not invariably protected by double meanings.

Croftway, and they always seemed to be running out of butter or instant coffee, or gravy browning, then she usually dropped in at the newsagents and bought herself a Daily Mail or a copy of Woman's Own to peruse over the sandwich and chocolate biscuit that comprised her lunch, but The Times did not enter the house until the evening, brought home by George in his brief-case.

Because the daily paper doesn't get to Scardale till lunchtime and Hawkin likes a paper with his breakfast, the newsagent at Longnor leaves an Evening News in the mailbox at the end of the lane every morning and whoever does the school run drops it off at the manor afterwards.