How to Use strip mall in a Sentence

strip mall

noun
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  • Firefighters contained the blaze to one of the three spaces in the strip mall.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The last stop on Yvan’s tour is at a strip mall some distance away.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
  • The Feng's door neighbors in the same strip mall got hit harder.
    — Emma Balter, Chron, 6 May 2022
  • In the humid church at a Maryland strip mall, the casket was open.
    — Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Bath & Body Works is among those shifting stores to strip malls.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 27 July 2023
  • Weis, who was homeless, frequently stopped by a pub in the same strip mall.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Also in the strip mall, next to the police headquarters, is the Mission Branch of the city library.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Footage from the scene overnight showed a large police presence outside the strip mall and at a gas station across the street.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 21 May 2022
  • At 6th Street and Vermont Avenue, a strip mall that had gone up in flames was soon rising again.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Twelve hours later, Tran sat in his van in a Torrance strip mall parking lot.
    — Brittny Mejiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The narrow restaurant is located in a strip mall, but the food does not fail to impress.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • From the Archives takes a look back before the days of strip malls and multiscreen theaters.
    — U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • All of them are excellent and all of them will give you an idea of just how good strip mall dining in the suburbs can be.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 18 June 2024
  • For about 35 years, members rented retail space in a strip mall.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The strip mall lot is owned by 467 Forest Property Inc.
    — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The day after the shooting, Tran killed himself as police closed in on his van at a Torrance strip mall.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • This morning's stabbing was not the first case of disturbances at the strip mall address.
    — Jen Guadarrama, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2024
  • The Locke Media headquarters sits in a squat strip mall a ten-minute drive from the Global Vision church.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
  • The weekly meeting in the far corner of a strip mall parking lot in Upper Marlboro, Md., had been rained out for the past two weeks.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • As the sun begins to set over the distant skyline of the Strip, the parking lot of an East Las Vegas strip mall fills with the sounds of a six-piece mariachi band.
    — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Tourists travel to a strip mall in Murray where customers can get their lips plumped, Botox and skin treatments?
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Between that and Fernando bringing in even more armed guys to try to police the strip mall, the whole thing is an utter mess.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2023
  • If unions can work their way into the strip mall coffee shop, why not Minor League Baseball?
    — Mitchell Nathanson, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The shooting occurred at a smoke shop in a strip mall on the block, local news outlets reported.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
  • This one was in a seafood restaurant, called San Francisco Bay, that had recently opened in a strip mall.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The shooting took place in a strip mall parking lot on Route 83, near Honeysuckle Rose Lane.
    — Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
  • That began to change when white flight reached the capital city of Jackson in the 1960s and Rankin’s fields gave way to subdivisions and strip malls.
    — Nate Rosenfield Rory Doyle For The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Men and women wrap themselves in ragged blankets under the overhangs of grocery stores and strip malls.
    — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 10 July 2023
  • It’s located in a strip mall next to a Dollar Tree discount store and a Chinese takeout joint.
    — Dave Goldiner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Hamilton then relocated the business to a Gladstone strip mall, still serving the same Sutera family recipes.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2024

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