How to Use parking lot in a Sentence

parking lot

noun
  • He was hit while in the parking lot near the park restrooms.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 17 July 2023
  • The trailhead is on the southern side of the parking lot.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • 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
  • Yellow tape blocked off the parking lot in front of the store’s entrance.
    Travis Andersen and, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The car found in the parking lot, though, bore no signs of an accident.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 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
  • Police stopped the car in the parking lot of a hospital.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Here's the timetable: The State Farm Stadium parking lot opens at noon.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 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
  • Friends found Metzger in the Home Depot parking lot and called 911.
    Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The race has also paid the city to use the parking lots around Will Rogers Coliseum.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2024
  • However, after the game I was stuck in the parking lot for over an hour.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Bynum, now 63, spent hours as a child riding bikes in the parking lot with other kids.
    Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • One spring Saturday, the Bread Lab hosts a pop-up bread sale in their parking lot.
    Ryan Kellman, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Hyundai Elantra was taken at gunpoint in the parking lot.
    John Benson, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Burton was discovered in the parking lot of the events center.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The airport parking lots and access for car rental purposes remain open.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2024

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