What's the difference between groceries and sundries?
Groceries
Definition:
(pl. ) of Grocery
Example Sentences:
(1) Co-founder Cyndi Anafo’s mother used to run a Ghanaian grocery in the covered market that has recently been rebranded Brixton Village, a target destination for food tourists and wealthy Londoners.
(2) Not only did it make every grocery-store run a guilt trip; it made me feel selfish for caring more about birds in the present than about people in the future.
(3) For the consumer, it’s a convenient way to buy local groceries, everything from vegetables to fish, cheese and bread is all sold on one website and can be collected from one place.” There are now over 450 assemblies in France and Belgium, and the company is launching in Britain, Germany and Spain.
(4) Asian grocery stores were visited to identify foods available for purchase by SE Asians.
(5) Bob Cannell, member of Suma Wholefoods workers co-operative "Suma had its best ever business results in 2013 and there have been similar results for other worker co-ops such as Unicorn Grocery in Manchester.
(6) Restaurants and grocery stores are closed in areas where there are clashes.
(7) Phenylpropanolamine is widely used and freely available without a doctor's prescription in drug and grocery stores; it is the active ingredient in most diet aids and many cold preparations.
(8) This is the stuff women are thinking about all the time, even as we brazenly strut through grocery store parking lots at eight in the morning, wearing overalls, with our hair in ponytails.
(9) But convenience shops and grocery stores, which lie beyond the authority of the city's health department, would still have been allowed to sell large containers.
(10) In the era of instant gratification, it was perhaps inevitable that retailers would eventually offer same-day grocery delivery, and it’s hardly surprising that it’s Amazon that is leading the way.
(11) Owner José Manuel bought the specialist grocery store he had frequented since childhood and turned the store room into a tiny bar.
(12) The results provide support for including measures of the grocery store environment as part of a community-level assessment of dietary behavior.
(13) Tesco speaks for 30.5% of UK grocery sales and is expected to deliver profits of £3.7bn at its annual results in April.
(14) It’s not enough at all,” said Araceli Belaez, 40, lining up for groceries at a supermarket in the Caracas slum of Catia.
(15) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
(16) Online grocery delivery companies will also be required to take part in the scheme, with companies charging 5p per bag delivered.
(17) The grocery market is struggling amid price deflation of between 1% and 2%.
(18) It is also important to be aware of perfumes and grocery products as causes of this phenomenon.
(19) The takeover of Argos is designed to broaden the Sainsbury’s product range and reduce its reliance on the highly competitive grocery market.
(20) In a singularly painless contest the money would either be paid to the band as a royalty, which would take that money out of the system and put it into things like houses and groceries and college educations.
Sundries
Definition:
(n. pl.) Many different or small things; sundry things.
Example Sentences:
(1) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
(2) Try the provolone com cebola (provolone cheese and onion), Italiano (gorgonzola, sundried tomato and arugula), or the brie with shiitake.
(3) At the time of publishing the list stands at 244, including, but certainly not limited to: disturbed balance; blurred vision; cataracts; mass bee extinction; unexplained deaths of cattle, goats, dolphins, worms and sundry other animals; family discord; disoriented echidnas; social problems among peacocks; and eggs without yolks.
(4) We have evaluated the carcinogenicity of different preparations of areca nut: ripe-unprocessed-sundried nut (R-UP-SD), ripe-processed-sundried nut (R-P-SD), unripe-processed-sundried nut (UR-P-SD), ripe-unprocessed-sundried-water-soaked nut (R-UP-SD-WS) and ripe-unprocessed-undried-water-soaked nut (R-UP-UD-WS) in mice following diet-feeding or oral feeding for 12 months.
(5) Selective ligation of sundry hepatic arteries in patients with hepatic trauma obviated death from hepatic bleeding in 59 of 60 patients treated with this method of hemostasis.
(6) The study examines the relative influence of sundry psychological risk factors on the various forms of angina pectoris found in two groups of women with classic angina pains attributable in one group to critical organic lesions of the coronary arteries and in the other to functional spasm.
(7) SUNDRIES QUEEN’S POLICE MEDAL (QPM) ENGLAND AND WALES Simon John Alcock.
(8) Politicians bear a heavy responsibility for this, notably Thatcher, who assaulted unions and vested interests with the conspicuous exception of the police: she needed their support in sundry industrial conflicts.
(9) Gay viewers seeking mainstream self-identification in the cinema have usually had to settle for winking nuances and allusions, or at worst, the more oblivious homoeroticism of sundry Michael Bay-style brawnfests.
(10) The nuts are chewed as such or processed by roasting, sundrying, soaking or boiling prior to chewing.
(11) The annual fee is around £700,000 plus food and sundries.
(12) Lauded by his equals, feared by his rivals, loathed by all and sundry.
(13) Iam quite taken aback by the furore over Tyson Fury , with calls for him to be put in the stocks from all and sundry.
(14) In April 2005, she claimed £535 for a television and set-top box and in February 2006, she claimed £1,098 for a Samsung television and various "sundries" including an outdoor wall heater.
(15) I therefore suggest to all and sundry across the party and the government that we unite in ensuring Tony Abbott does not simply treat the Lodge as if it’s his own personal property.
(16) Solunarians In Daniel Defoe's The Consolidator, or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon , we find that the lunar satellite is populated by the Solunarians, who are endlessly scrapping with their enemies.
(17) In a statement that seems little short of putting two fingers up at all and sundry, the company said that this amount was not "conducive to private sector involvement" in the refurbishment of the tube, and then it goes on to emphasise that London Underground is a "difficult" client.
(18) They insist on the possibilities of these languages that go from the simple notation of information to the taking of these sundries modalities in account.
(19) So Miranda's dress gets stuck in a cab, revealing her bra and big knickers to all and sundry.
(20) Estimation of the active chemical constituents in the nuts namely arecoline and polyphenols following nut treatments by sundrying, roasting, soaking and boiling, revealed reduction in these chemical contents.