diff --git a/spacy/lexeme.pxd b/spacy/lexeme.pxd
index 8dea0d6a2..2d14edcd6 100644
--- a/spacy/lexeme.pxd
+++ b/spacy/lexeme.pxd
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from .attrs cimport attr_id_t
 from .attrs cimport ID, ORTH, LOWER, NORM, SHAPE, PREFIX, SUFFIX, LENGTH, LANG
 
 from .structs cimport LexemeC
-from .strings cimport StringStore
 from .vocab cimport Vocab
 
 
diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pxd b/spacy/tokenizer.pxd
index 86e62ddbf..6f9dfc90f 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pxd
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pxd
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ from cymem.cymem cimport Pool
 
 from .typedefs cimport hash_t
 from .structs cimport LexemeC, SpanC, TokenC
-from .strings cimport StringStore
 from .tokens.doc cimport Doc
 from .vocab cimport Vocab, LexemesOrTokens, _Cached
 from .matcher.phrasematcher cimport PhraseMatcher