The old houses were torn down to make room for a supermarket.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

It was hard for me to give up the house where I had lived for so long.

The new supermarket has put the old one in(to) the shade.

The store has been going downhill since a big supermarket opened in front of the station.

Two or three small shops have gone out of business since the supermarket was opened.

The old and spidery barn at the back of the inn is gone.

The increasing business makes us feel the want of space.

a small shop squeezed in between two big buildings

I hear that the old people's home filed an application with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to buy the plot.

Our neighbors were forced to sell their house.

The landlord used to be quite well off.

pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf

More and more office workers are attaching greater importance to their families than to their offices.

FamilyMart Company, a major convenience store chain, has equipped three trucks to serve as mobile stores.

They lived in a very small house at the end of a long, gray street.

The rental for company(‐owned) housing is so low that many families find it difficult to move away.

Owning a home of our own was a dream for years.

The country inn was as pleasant as it used to be in the old days.

In early days pioneers lived in houses made of mud and straw.

That department store has drawn customers by enlarging the shopping floors.

Because a supermarket opened in the neighborhood, many retail stores had to close [were driven out of business].

The cholera-infected house was cut off from communication―isolated―tabooed―for a week.

The cholera-infected house was cut off from communication―shut off from communication―for a week.

The elderly couple welcomed the disaster victim as a houseguest.

A superstore opened up in the neighborhood so shopping's gotten more convenient.

A lot of souvenir shops stood in a row along a narrow street leading to the shrine.

All the members of the family cleaned the house and then celebrated the New Year.

Variety stores went into decline because of the growth of discount stores.

These stores have less floor space than traditional supermarkets.

We have to strengthen the patrols around the warehouse because there have been a large number of thefts recently.

Shopping malls are popular among teenagers.