How to Use strip mall in a Sentence

strip mall

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The sounds of the zydeco band didn’t so much drift from the corner of the North Hollywood strip mall as stampede out of it.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • At the start of this week, the only place to pick up a free at-home kit in Mat-Su was a small food pantry in a strip mall just outside Wasilla.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The victim's sons then steered the SUV off the freeway to a strip mall parking lot where one of the children got out of the car and ran to get help, Cannon said.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 21 Aug. 2021
  • 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 suite, tucked in a strip mall next door to a day care center, has no signs or other indications of what goes on inside.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The area is home to auto plants, former industrial sites, quaint downtown corridors and strip malls.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2024

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