strip mall
noun
: a long usually one-story building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments
Examples of strip mall in a Sentence
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That includes not just large malls but downtown shopping centers and smaller hubs like strip malls.
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Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
One of my favorite icebreakers is to ask people to build the strip mall of their dreams using five chain establishments—and people get very passionate in their responses.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
In Sderot, where the population had plunged overnight from 31,000 to fewer than 5,000, families are returning and strip malls reopening.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
Denise Woods lives in her Chevy, seeking a safe place to sleep each night at strip malls or truck stops around Savannah, Georgia.
—Fred Clasen-Kelly, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles strip mall, Dr. Mohamad Yaghi operated on a 28-year-old woman who had traveled from Las Vegas to have fat trimmed from her arms and stomach.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Uh and his wife and business partner, Mina Park, first opened their experimental strip mall joint in 2018, diners were entranced by the shelves practically buckling under the weight of giant jars of ferments.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
But offers from developers who would turn it into subdivisions or strip malls seem increasingly tempting.
—Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The MiMo Caracas is a busy, bustling sit-down breakfast and lunch spot, tucked away in an unassuming strip mall next to a Doggi’s Arepa Bar.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
One of my favorite icebreakers is to ask people to build the strip mall of their dreams using five chain establishments—and people get very passionate in their responses.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
In Sderot, where the population had plunged overnight from 31,000 to fewer than 5,000, families are returning and strip malls reopening.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
Denise Woods lives in her Chevy, seeking a safe place to sleep each night at strip malls or truck stops around Savannah, Georgia.
—Fred Clasen-Kelly, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles strip mall, Dr. Mohamad Yaghi operated on a 28-year-old woman who had traveled from Las Vegas to have fat trimmed from her arms and stomach.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Uh and his wife and business partner, Mina Park, first opened their experimental strip mall joint in 2018, diners were entranced by the shelves practically buckling under the weight of giant jars of ferments.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
But offers from developers who would turn it into subdivisions or strip malls seem increasingly tempting.
—Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The MiMo Caracas is a busy, bustling sit-down breakfast and lunch spot, tucked away in an unassuming strip mall next to a Doggi’s Arepa Bar.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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