But he had never taken it on a rusty thrift-shop bike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spin] Reference

Junky Styling: a manual for thrift-shop clothes-remixers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

The furniture was heavy Depression-era stuff thrift-shop treasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

Two old men in long thrift-shop overcoats shared a table along the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.html]

Some eco-minded knitters sell yarn made from unraveled thrift-shop sweaters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepherd's Tale:] Reference

It became more honest, because in fact it was a thrift-shop find, like my sofa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Road] Reference

The other day I saw this book on a thrift-shop shelf, and nabbed it immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criss-Cross -- Don Tracy] Reference

I settled down now on my thrift-shop sofa and LJ flew down and sat on my shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Road] Reference

That's like wearing an ugly ol 'thrift-shop muumuu instead of a decent bridal gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: man in Japan weds anime game character Boing Boing] Reference

To you, they just seem tacky, although definitely superior to Q-Jo's thrift-shop heirlooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]

There are some funny moments and I really liked the descriptions of Alex's thrift-shop chic style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Faking 19] Reference

Here, it rose, thanks to a collection of thrift-shop Victoriana that transformed the vanilla-ordinary rooms into an elegant suite.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Strange City]

They look like the rest of us in their hipster thrift-shop uniforms, brilliant dyed hair with roots proudly exposed, and facial piercings and tattoos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: December 9, 2001 - December 15, 2001 Archives] Reference

The female lead singer is so enthusiastic and awake -- a knockout in a thrift-shop dress, cardigan sweater and running shoes -- that you can't take your eyes off her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros: Has the Happiest Band in America Made '09's Best Song?] Reference

They brandish aging AK-47s -- some looted from Saddam Hussein's old armories, others purchased in local markets -- and wear a thrift-shop assortment of tattered uniforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Amarah Blues] Reference

Entrants included a macramé bikini crafted of shredded fabric; designer Rachel Woodward tore her thrift-shop purchases into thin strips, which became her macramé “string.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 March 13 « Scavenging] Reference

The thrift-shop furniture wasn't a style statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

They wore a ragbag of cloaks and thrift-shop outfits, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Roald Dahl's 1970 children's bookis adapted into a fairy-tale thrift-shop universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

Wow, here's five unassuming British guys in thrift-shop T-shirts singing songs about unrequited love.    From Wordnik.com.  [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference

It's a thrift-shop guardian angel, stitched together from old lamp parts, toys and hardware store bric-a-brac.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Napoleon Dynamite, "a thrift-shop Wes Anderson pastiche masquerading as the latest in cult-film haute couture.".    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

The NY Sun (R.I.P.) once called it "a thrift-shop Solaris ... that would please fans of Eraserhead-era David Lynch.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gothamist] Reference

A single pregnant stowaway on a sleeve, say, or in a thrift-shop cushion could turn you into the next Peter Krask. nits.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Shinique Smith's towering bales of recycled garments and fabrics revealed geologies of thrift-shop detritus at the Proposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The swagger in the Broken Singles 'playing comes from tough hometown Boston bars, far from the thrift-shop crowd they sometimes endured in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Springs Independent] Reference

Miller turned up for her courthouse ceremony in a short thrift-shop bridal gown and a veil, with a rainbow-colored bouquet of paper flowers to toss.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

And she says she's long had an innate fashion sense, adding that her personal thrift-shop style heavily influenced the characters she played in her '80s films.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winnipeg Sun] Reference

Unlike my thrift-shop finds, it didn't have a habit of splitting down the seam before French class was over, nor did it have food stains from a decades-old meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The QC Report] Reference

How a social engineering expert gained access to extremely sensitive information with little more than a thrift-shop shirt, a plate of cookies and a Linksys box.    From Wordnik.com.  [CSO] Reference

The first time I stopped into my neighborhood's first coffeehouse, just after it opened in February 2006, the thrift-shop couches that sat in an L-formation threw me.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

A sort of rustic, thrift-shop decor screens the corporate presence, and such additions as live music and poetry readings are meant to lend an aura of down-home authenticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

The reporter covering the Academy Awards for the BBC this year will wearing a thrift-shop dress to tonight’s extravaganza.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 February « Scavenging] Reference

This era also saw the beginning of thrift-shop style, which gained prominence again in the ‘90s as retro dressing became suddenly hip.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Passion for Knitting] Reference

To playful thrift-shop retro.    From Wordnik.com.  [WISTV - Local News RSS] Reference

This was not the area’s first thrift-shop heist.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Thrift-Shop Heists « Scavenging] Reference