CUSTOMER in a Sentence

Learn CUSTOMER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
383 example sentences for CUSTOMER, such as:
1. This company is our regular customer.
2. Mr. Horace Harker is a customer of ours.
3. She's eyeing me up as a potential customer.
4. The company is trying to expand its customer base.
5. Administration costs are passed on to the customer.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CUSTOMER
customer
 n.  someone who pays for goods or services
Classic Sentence: (188 in 13 pages)
1  But when ladylike airs failed to get results she was coldly businesslike and willingly undersold her competitors at a loss to herself if it would bring her a new customer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
2  She went to the store and was very sharp with everyone, for every time the door opened to admit a customer she looked up with a flutter, hoping it was Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
3  She never, I discovered, finished anything by the time she had promised, and she frequently spent more money on materials than her customer had authorized.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
4  The customer had desired to purchase an alarm clock, and the boss had shown him two exactly similar, telling him that the price of one was a dollar and of the other a dollar seventy-five.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  As he got up meekly, the other reflected that he had always been a steady man, and might soon be a good customer again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  To continue in fistic phraseology, he had a genius for coming up to the scratch, wherever and whatever it was, and proving himself an ugly customer.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
7  He passed a great many public-houses; but, at length paused before one in a by-way, whose parlour, as he gathered from a hasty peep over the blinds, was deserted, save by one solitary customer.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  Probably he handed it to some sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
9  Mr. Horace Harker is a customer of ours.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
10  Chichikov entered, and in a trice the proprietor had dived beneath the counter, and appeared on the other side of it, with his back to his wares and his face towards the customer.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
11  The material met with the customer's approval, a price was agreed upon, and with incredible celerity the vendor made up the purchase into a brown-paper parcel, and stowed it away in Chichikov's koliaska.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  True, the customer remarked that there appeared to be a slight tightness under the right armpit, but the smiling tailor only rejoined that that would cause the waist to fit all the better.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
14  Disappointed in the expectation of a customer, she coolly acceded to my request.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  "Why, you niggers have an easier time than I do," said a puzzled Albany merchant to his black customer.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (195 in 14 pages)
1  Administration costs are passed on to the customer.
2  Consumers found the attitude of its staff offhand and generally offensive to the paying customer.
3  The chairman of the bank believes in the personal touch and always sends a signed letter to each customer.
4  The company has been expanding its customer base using trade magazine advertising.
5  The company is trying to expand its customer base.
6  We try to be responsive to the needs of the customer.
7  If you have a complaint, contact the customer care unit.
8  The adverts entice the customer into buying things they don't really want.
9  I really believe that it is possible to both improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs.
10  He arranges to collect the payment from the customer, thus saving the client the paperwork.
11  Please collect your purchases from the customer collection point.
12  They know me-I'm a regular customer.
13  The customer cast his money on the counter and left.
14  This company is our regular customer.
15  She's eyeing me up as a potential customer.