How to Use food desert in a Sentence

food desert

noun

• The area is a food desert, and its schools are failing.
  — Karlos K. Hill, CNN, 29 May 2021
• The area was previously the largest food desert in the city.
  — Amy Bartner, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2019
• Central Park is the closest thing to a food desert in NYC.
  — Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2022
• Throughout the Black Belt, schools have been an oasis in a food desert.
  — al, 20 Sep. 2022
• Over the past three decades, the definition of a food desert has evolved.
  — Stephone Coward, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2021
• There are other factors that make a place a food desert.
  — Jessica Booth, Redbook, 29 Apr. 2019
• Her hope is for one day there to be a La Soupe in every food desert in Cincinnati.
  — Hannah Sparling, Cincinnati.com, 9 Oct. 2017
• In fact, this neighborhood is what might be called a food desert.
  — Ken Frazier, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022
• It has long been considered a food desert because of the lack of grocery stores in the area.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Well may be, uh, becoming, uh, a food desert on, on April 30th.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
• The arrival of Tops in 2003 was a godsend to an area that had been considered a food desert.
  — Aaron Morrison, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• That area of Euclid was just one of dozens of food deserts in Cuyahoga County.
  — Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• About one in four people in Baltimore lives in a food desert.
  — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• Bonton’s also a food desert, a place with no easy access to healthy food.
  — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 14 May 2020
• And that the unreasonable terms of model X Lee’s left Collinwood with a food desert.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
• Stigler remembers talk of a park, a koi pond, and even a grocery store in an area that is well known as a food desert.
  — Joe Rubin, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• Without this store, people in my rural area would live in a food desert.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2020
• She was raised with four siblings by her single mother in Harlem, a food desert.
  — Leena Trivedi-Grenier, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• The area had been one of the city's food deserts — neighborhoods with little access to grocery stores.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2017
• The farmer’s market is one of the city’s various efforts to combat food deserts.
  — Anna Beahm | [e-mail], al.com, 11 June 2019
• If this model is a success, the Salvation Army hopes to open more stores in food deserts across the country.
  — Janine Puhak, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2018
• The Vliet stand might be named the Oasis, Mueller said, for being an oasis of fresh produce in a food desert.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2020
• Some scholars describe parts of U.S. cities with few or no grocery stores as food deserts.
  — Laura A. Reese, The Conversation, 25 June 2024
• The store opened 19 years ago and became a neighborhood hub and gathering place in what had been a food desert.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• Some, as in the Boston Food Forest Coalition, are in areas of urban plight and food deserts.
  — Phil Lempert, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• People may want trees on or near their properties for shade or beauty, or as a source of food in a food desert.
  — Jingnan Peng, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
• Fresh food takes root in Fairfax: Fairfax has been labeled a food desert, but that may be starting to change.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
• People who live in food deserts rely upon these small stores.
  — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 27 Mar. 2020
• East Oakland is also considered a food desert so getting groceries can be tough without a car.
  — Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• Parramore is one of Orlando’s most-impoverished neighborhoods and home to a food desert.
  — Lauren Brensel, Orlando Sentinel, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024