What is "deli"

Usage examples of "deli".

But last Wednesday morning, while perusing breadstuffs at the corner deli, her eyes locked on the muffin with the cranberry smile.

Instead he glanced left, then quickly right at the deserted sidewalks of 92nd Street as he ducked around the coner of a deli and moved away from the brighter lights of Broadway.

Despite the increasing crowdedness downtown, it still felt as though there was room for everyone and everything, Vietnamese groceries next to the 1930s Federalist-style post office next to an eighteenth-century storefront housing a German deli that replaced a dry-goods store in the 1890s.

Diet Coke and stuffing my face with a Panini 2 from the Italian deli around the corner on Second Avenue.

The studio was at the top of a staircase over a deli, a cramped office with a wall plastered with heavily airbrushed photos of smiling children and happy families.

I bought popsicles for Connie and me and two pounds of sliced deli ham for Lula.

He stopped in at Mac's deli to buy three coffees and took them upstairs with him.

The sensible microfraction of my brain issues the signal to run like hell, but the reckless remainder says I should stay and ascertain how Cleo Rio already figured out that I'm responsible for the disc in the deli bag.

I assumed Cleo would panic the moment she discovered the compact disc in the deli bag—or at least after she listened to it.

So the girl takes the apple and stares at it like she's never seen an apple before—like so," Delis held out her hand and widened her eyes in mimickry, "and then she draws in enough power to run every ghostlight in the city.

When they went through it a few times on their own, Delis added the descant.

So the girl takes the apple and stares at it like she's never seen an apple before—like so," Delis held out her hand and widened her eyes in mimickry, "and then she draws in enough power to run every ghostlight in the city.

I'm going to hire security guards to watch my delis, and I'm going to the cops.

And, although fighting the crowd was preferable to sitting alone in her rooms, waiting for a call she was certain would never come, after being jostled in several of the more popular shops--not really seeing the merchandise, but merely struggling through--then gulping down a hurried lunch at a stand-up deli while watching the crowd swell, she was more than ready to return to her quarters.

She unloaded carrots, dip, blocks of cheese, a deli bag of sliced roast beef, buns, lettuce, brown mustard, and a massive bag of seedless grapes.