Example sentences for: storefronts

How can you use “storefronts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On my way out of town, I drive through a fold in time,a tunnel through the history of shopping:boarded-up storefronts on the narrow commercial streets,the old strips and plazas with a muffler shop or a chicken fryer left,and larger sites--a five-and-dime blown out into a warehouse,fast-food shops, all local chains now,with their scratchy speakers and pot-holed drive-thru lanes;then the first real malls, big as aircraft carriers, low and blocky,their outlying coffee shops and two-screen theaters like escorts;at last a quieting stretch, the freeway growing wallsand the walled tracts all around nestled in their names--The Willows, Hunt Club Crossing, Hidden Acres--their malls planted, soft-colored, smoothly designed,broad single lumps surrounded by asphalt prairie,distant and unobtrusive as buttes.

  • Even in the case of multiple-edition prints, where a sizable number of identical lithographs may exist, you're not likely to find them competitively priced in adjoining storefronts.

  • On a later visit, a veritably complete downtown had sprung up, but it was yet vacant, its storefronts without signs, its windows without glass, not a solitary pedestrian along its streets.

  • The George W. Bush and Al Gore campaigns have raised little more than pocket change through their Web contribution "storefronts."

  • The first said 6:25; the second, several storefronts down, 6:22; a third, 6:29.


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