How to Use strip mall in a Sentence

strip mall

noun

• Firefighters contained the blaze to one of the three spaces in the strip mall.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
• In the humid church at a Maryland strip mall, the casket was open.
  — Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• 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
• Twelve hours later, Tran sat in his van in a Torrance strip mall parking lot.
  — Brittny Mejiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The weekly meeting in the far corner of a strip mall parking lot in Upper Marlboro, Md., had been rained out for the past two weeks.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
• As the sun begins to set over the distant skyline of the Strip, the parking lot of an East Las Vegas strip mall fills with the sounds of a six-piece mariachi band.
  — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• Tourists travel to a strip mall in Murray where customers can get their lips plumped, Botox and skin treatments?
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• Between that and Fernando bringing in even more armed guys to try to police the strip mall, the whole thing is an utter mess.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2023
• If unions can work their way into the strip mall coffee shop, why not Minor League Baseball?
  — Mitchell Nathanson, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2022
• This one was in a seafood restaurant, called San Francisco Bay, that had recently opened in a strip mall.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The shooting took place in a strip mall parking lot on Route 83, near Honeysuckle Rose Lane.
  — Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• That began to change when white flight reached the capital city of Jackson in the 1960s and Rankin’s fields gave way to subdivisions and strip malls.
  — Nate Rosenfield Rory Doyle For The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Men and women wrap themselves in ragged blankets under the overhangs of grocery stores and strip malls.
  — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 10 July 2023
• It’s located in a strip mall next to a Dollar Tree discount store and a Chinese takeout joint.
  — Dave Goldiner, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Many lack seating, and are squeezed in aging, low-slung strip malls, next to coin laundromats or nail salons.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• The two-lane highways are commuter thoroughfares, and the open land has become shopping centers and strip malls.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• But Greenville is flat and landlocked, its miles of soybean fields crossed with strip malls and industrial parks.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• The staff is so inviting, and since this is located in a strip mall, there’s usually plenty of parking.
  — Condé Nast, Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2023
• McKinney said Holder used Bryannita Nicholson to drive him to the strip mall where the killing occurred.
  — Jonathan Landrum Jr., USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
• The pandemic soon followed, and later a move to a new space in a strip mall off Bogard Road, between a gym and a carpet store.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
• Just days later, on Feb. 1, a second woman was found dead behind a strip mall nearby.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
• Traffic was a potential problem, and frankly, critics said the strip malls were just ugly.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• That became especially true around 2018, two years after Kato opened in a bare, snug space in the nook of a corner strip mall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
• On a recent weeknight in Punta Gorda, Florida, a bird thief cut the power at a strip mall.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
• Farrington’s is your classic Irish sports bar plopped in a Contra Costa strip mall.
  — Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024