How to Use shopping center in a Sentence

shopping center

noun
  • Across the street was a big white shopping center full of white sedans.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The impact of the crash left a crater near a shopping center.
    — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The shopping center’s entrance will back up to the sports park.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 May 2024
  • Partly, open-air shopping centers are the place to be.
    — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The club, along with a nearby up-scale shopping center, are the heart of the town.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Aguila, his wife and son were at the shopping center when the man showed up, the report read.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 26 July 2025
  • The owners plant to start a redo of the shopping center with help from the city.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 May 2021
  • Linthicum got out and ran into the woods behind a shopping center.
    — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Telehealth may work at home, but perhaps not so much in a shopping center.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • The new digs will open in the new phase of Westbend shopping center.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2026
  • But over the years, the once vibrant shopping center became more of a ghost town.
    — Amanda Rosa may 28, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • That could be a shopping center, a school, an office building or a house.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • Here's a look at the shopping center's history and what could be next for the site.
    — Corinne S Kennedy, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The pet store leased about 7,200 square feet in the shopping center.
    — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • The shopping center is 100% leased.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Two women who were at the shopping center survived after they were shot.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 13 May 2026
  • Also, the new space will be more than double the size of what the center has at the shopping center.
    — Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Deputies found the man in the shopping center parking lot and set up a perimeter to keep civilians away.
    — Gershon Harrell, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
  • In early April, an evening shooting that broke out at a shopping center left a man dead.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The whole shopping center on the corner … was completely burned to the ground.
    — Lajja Mistry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The shopping center as a whole hasn’t been especially crazy thus far.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 June 2026
  • Video from inside the shopping center appears to show the suspect on his knees with his hands raised in the air.
    — Kocha Olarn, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • And that's the shopping center, at least of the European side.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Witnesses told the news outlet that the thief then ran to the bank, which was in the same shopping center.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026
  • Panache Chocolatier closed in the shopping center just days ago.
    — Jenna Thompson june 1, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026
  • Publix owns that shopping center.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
  • There’s no late-night scene, no massive shopping centers (though there is a Target).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
  • That’s on top of millions more since the city bought the shopping center in 2014.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 19 Apr. 2025
  • My dad reluctantly pulls our rental car into a shopping center and parks.
    — Margrét Ann Thors, PEOPLE, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Fox News has reached out to the police department and the shopping center.
    — Fox News, 24 Feb. 2022

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