How to Use strip mall in a Sentence

strip mall

noun
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  • The stores in the strip mall seemed to be nicely painted and busy.
    — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
  • He was shot at a strip mall less than a half-mile from the high school at around 2:40 p.m.
    — David Aaro, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Renacci said the man owned a strip mall, not a strip club.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
  • Bath & Body Works is among those shifting stores to strip malls.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 27 July 2023
  • The empty 34-acre strip mall remains fenced in, though a few spots have been breached.
    — Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
  • Angelenos pull up to the strip mall, the taco stand, the donut shop, turn off the ignition and stay a while.
    — The Editors, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Next was Kim’s Cleaners, now an empty sliver of a strip mall up the street.
    — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 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
  • Ulta has made huge strides since the days high-end brands eschewed the strip mall stalwart.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Customers flocked to a south Scottsdale strip mall to visit House of Rice for more than four decades.
    — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2021
  • The wall of Rita Barron's clothing store in a five-shop strip mall has a bullet hole in it.
    — Stephanie Allen, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
  • In a strip mall in Grand Rapids, a shop called the Vac Shack sells and services vacuum cleaners.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The ladies FaceTime Cynthia, who is at a strip mall bridal shop buying her mom a dress for the wedding.
    — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2021
  • 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 fight continued outside in the strip mall parking lot.
    — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2021
  • The narrow restaurant is located in a strip mall, but the food does not fail to impress.
    — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Instead of riding her bike home, Amy walked with a couple of friends to Bay Square, a small strip mall less than a mile from the school.
    — NBC News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Roughly the size of a strip mall, ‘Oumuamua was first seen as a dot on a telescope image four years ago.
    — Seth Shostak, Scientific American, 29 July 2021
  • If a strip mall had a superhero, her clothing would be the costume.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
  • So Ross drove to St. Paul and saw hundreds of people gathering in the strip mall near where Teigen had been found.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • An additional acre was reserved by The Keenan Group next to the strip mall site for future development, Keenan said.
    — Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • This relaxed dim sum restaurant in a Kenner strip mall excels at stacking your table with food and leaving you to enjoy a chill meal.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024

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