What is "shoppers"

Usage examples of "shoppers".

Morning brought a different set of people to the Quarter: shoppers, delivery men, tourists who felt safer during the day or simply weren't interested in nightlife.

She could make shoppers let her go to the head of the line, or have her street plowed first when it snowed.

It was getting late, almost time for the mall to close, and he was damn tired of showing these photographs to tired shoppers and shop employees.

He returned in no more than ten minutes, proving that the shoppers inside had taken one look at him and realized he belonged at the front of the checkout line.

Among the other shoppers, he was as obvious as a duck in a dog parade.

shoppers would be too preoccupied finding bargains and salesclerks would be too busy serving shoppers to notice the bulge.

Progress wasn't easy because the panicked shoppers were running north away from the gunfire.

The rest of the People looked at him as civilized shoppers might watch a street crazy who had happened through the store's front door, but as yet had shown no signs of screaming or knocking things about.

This may be merely a fairy tale—no one I know has ever seen one of the Shoppers, who are said to be godlike giants who come into the Kitchen only when night is done, when all who live here are as helplessly asleep as those in the farthest depths of the Ice Box.

But the Shoppers, if the stories are true, bring us here from that other place, and thus we spend our nights in the Kitchen, longing always to return to our true home.

This may be merely a fairy tale-no one I know has ever seen one of the Shoppers, who are said to be godlike giants who come into the Kitchen only when night is done, when all who live here are as helplessly asleep as those in the farthest depths of the Ice Box.

This may be merely a fairy tale—no one I know has ever seen one of the Shoppers, who are said to be godlike giants who come into the Kitchen only when night is done, when all who live here are as helplessly asleep as those in the farthest depths of the Ice Box.

It looked as though it might at any moment, though, and the crush of shoppers on the pavement in front of Brasenose had apparently decided it would.

The tech was already halfway down the street, pushing his way through the Christmas shoppers as if they weren't even there.

Kivrin said, thinking of Oxford on Christmas Eve, of the shops in Carfax decorated with plastic evergreens and laser lights and jammed with last-minute shoppers, the High full of bicycles, and Magdalen Tower showing dimly through the snow.