window-shop
Use Window-shop in a sentence
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doʊˌʃɒp verb (used without object)
1.
to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
2.
to examine or evaluate merchandise for possible purchase, use, etc.: Russian delegations are window-shopping in European factories.
verb (used with object)
3.
to look at (merchandise) in the windows of stores without making any purchases: to window-shop shoes.
Origin:
1925–30
1925–30
Related forms
win·dow-shop·per, noun
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| window-shop | |
| —vb , -shops, -shopping, -shopped | |
| (intr) to look at goods in shop windows without buying them | |
| 'window-shopper | |
| —n | |
| 'window-shopping | |
| —n | |
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Window-shop
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Example sentences
As for shopping, visitors can find plenty of spots to window-shop or splurge on everything from trinkets to clothes to cars.
It's always free to window-shop, or kids can play outside near the pond.
Take time to window-shop the many art galleries that have sprung up alongside the loud souvenir shops on the street.
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