strip mall

Example Sentences

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Before we went in, we sat in the parking lot of the strip mall — signs in Arabic advertising bread, coffee, halal meats, the Little Arabia District — hand in hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

That may have been outré to a middle and high-schooler trying to be cool, but at some point post-college, the Chili Peppers became synonymous with sweaty fools passing out in strip mall parking lots.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Around the crack of dawn, a line begins forming at a strip mall in Hyattsville, Maryland, as residents ranging from students to delivery workers and federal contractors wait to sign up for food assistance.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

When Medallion launched in 1988 and started compounding at 66% annually, Simons didn’t celebrate by going on television, mostly because he was too busy hiring cryptographers to work in a Long Island strip mall.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

Jule got hired to work for cash at a storefront gym in a strip mall.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart