How to Use parking lot in a Sentence

parking lot

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  • He was hit while in the parking lot near the park restrooms.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 July 2023
  • The event is free and kicks off in the Wildwood Park parking lot at 10 a.m. April 8.
    — Michael Charboneau, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The high school has a parking lot just for students’ golf carts.
    — Rick Rojas Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The video showed two cars driving into the parking lot at the same time, around 2:15 a.m.
    — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Pickup and drop-off for Uber and Lyft is in the Gantner parking lot.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The post also included a photo of the dog tied to the parking lot pole.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Norwood hoped to bring in fire hoses to wash the mud from the marina’s deck and parking lot.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Then, the rest of the shot was in a parking lot somewhere in Paris because we weren’t allowed to come back.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The building was demolished in 2007 and is now a parking lot.
    — Anna Kodé, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The long, empty parking lot abuts the park and connects to Central Street on the other side.
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The owners leveled the parking lot and planted trees to provide a view for the airy space.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The race has also paid the city to use the parking lots around Will Rogers Coliseum.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In January, rains caused a sinkhole in the parking lot, forcing the zoo to shut down for 34 days.
    — Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The trees surrounding the parking lot made a circle, their canopies framing a dome of sky.
    — Jessica Francis Kane, Harper's Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The surging water flooded some parking lots in the area.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The grocery and liquor store was a standalone building and the parking lot was as lively as any 1960s drive-in.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Both can be reached from the same Black Mountain Open Space parking lot, so hikers can do both on the same day.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Twelve hours later, Tran sat in his van in a Torrance parking lot.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Sometimes that meant sleeping in a parking lot after his shifts to save the 85-mile trip back home.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Is your trailhead parking lot made of large, sharp chunks of gravel?
    — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Others dropped kids off in the tight parking lot, with hugs and kisses goodbye.
    — Michael Lee, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Two groups of people then gathered in the middle of the parking lot, and a fight broke out, according to the report.
    — Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Officials didn't state what caused the tent to collapse at the parking lot or what it was being used for.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Days later, that same teen and his dad roared back into Lovelace’s parking lot, to show off his first buck.
    — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a reference to the old News-American site, a surface parking lot for the last 30 years.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
  • To access the hikes, park at the Torrey Pines Beach parking lot or the reserve’s parking lot, then walk up the hillside on the left to the trail network.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • One end will touch down on the far side of Wilshire, on a parcel owned by the museum that had been used as a surface parking lot.
    — Christopher Hawthorne, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • In a parking lot, Carol gets pelted by six geese a-laying.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
  • On a recent afternoon, the busiest part of town was the parking lot of a convenience store and gas station.
    — Madeleine Ngo, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Mario Garcia leaves the parking lot in his car, seemingly alone.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2023

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