How to Use strip mall in a Sentence

strip mall

noun
  • The stores in the strip mall seemed to be nicely painted and busy.
    Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Her shift at the ski shop starts at 7:30 a.m. in a nearby strip mall.
    Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The new strip mall is expected to open before the end of the year.
    Scott Peterson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2018
  • Nephew's, in a strip mall on Metairie Avenue, is a bit hard to find.
    Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 25 May 2018
  • 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
  • Fitzpatrick said, standing in front of the strip mall where the fight took place.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Though Hay was the local, Smith picked the meeting spot, a sports bar in a strip mall.
    Kate Knibbs, Wired News, 20 May 2025
  • The carnage began June 16 with a drive-by at a strip mall.
    Charles Rabin, miamiherald, 26 June 2018
  • With outside funding, the club moved to a mid-tier strip mall.
    Kashmir Hill, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Dozens packed the small office in a Norwood strip mall.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The shop is in a strip mall facing the levee a few miles from the Hale Boggs bridge.
    Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Renacci said the man owned a strip mall, not a strip club.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
  • The idea that the fanciest restaurant in town is in a strip mall is very odd to me!
    Joshua Rivera, GQ, 13 June 2018
  • Bath & Body Works is among those shifting stores to strip malls.
    Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 27 July 2023
  • The store opened in 2014 in a strip mall near the intersection of Waukegan and Lake Cook roads.
    Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • So what was Prince Royce doing at a strip mall gym in Kendall on the first day of the workweek?
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
  • Soon enough, Hatch found a guy in a strip mall in New Jersey who could get him more.
    Chris Ballard, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The toy rockets were a local landmark in a stretch of copy-and-paste strip malls.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
  • The empty 34-acre strip mall remains fenced in, though a few spots have been breached.
    Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
  • A few years ago, a Teleworks hub opened in a former strip mall in Booneville.
    Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Justin Park owns the Drunken Tiger, a small yet trendy restaurant in the corner of a strip mall in Mesa.
    Tirion Morris, azcentral, 5 Sep. 2019
  • As always, the parking was out of control at the karate school, which is in a strip mall shared by about a dozen other shops.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Plows are hard at work clearing a strip mall parking lot, which by noon appears clearer than the adjacent road.
    Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Lawler described the building as an older strip mall that is at least 50 years old.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Family is at the heart of a new coffee-shop-slash-music-space in a Citrus Heights strip mall.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Jan. 2026

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