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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bath & Body Works is among those shifting stores to strip malls.
    — Jinjoo Lee, WSJ, 27 July 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Fire department spokeswoman Blair Adams said this is not the first fire to tear through the strip mall.
    — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • In two years the strip mall went from 52% occupancy to 82%.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Dave Marecheau plays with his daughter, Phoenix, in a strip mall parking lot.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2020
  • 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
  • Out the real windows of the Owl Café is a big parking lot, a strip mall and a big road, and the interstate.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The open-air fitness center is in the parking lot of the Ruby Isle strip mall in Brookfield.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Customers flocked to a south Scottsdale strip mall to visit House of Rice for more than four decades.
    — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2021
  • The wall of Rita Barron's clothing store in a five-shop strip mall has a bullet hole in it.
    — Stephanie Allen, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Khaseen was killed in a fight in a strip mall near Oceanside High School on September 16.
    — Jay Croft and Laura Ly, CNN, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Since its establishment more than 20 years ago, the clinic has operated out of converted commercial space in an old strip mall.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Variance requests for building height and floor area ratio were denied in January by the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals after some members likened the proposal to a strip mall, thrusting the issue before the city council.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 19 Feb. 2025

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