How to Use parking lot in a Sentence

parking lot

noun
  • At the dead end, there’s a 200-space parking lot on the left.
    — al, 17 Nov. 2022
  • He was hit while in the parking lot near the park restrooms.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], 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
  • Like his shot from the Oaks Course’s version of the parking lot.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • One of them went to the parking lot, and the other followed.
    — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Catch the trail from the parking lot off Morse Mountain Road.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The high school has a parking lot just for students’ golf carts.
    — Rick Rojas Gabriela Bhaskar, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Beers or a joint in a parking lot after a round of golf.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The gunman then walked toward the school, climbed a fence and shot at the school from a parking lot.
    — Jon Swaine, Joyce Sohyun Lee and Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022
  • The gunman then walked toward the school, climbed a fence, and shot at the school from a parking lot.
    — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • Across the parking lot, a large gift shop offers cold drinks and snacks.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022
  • 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 parking lot beyond left field will be close to the public.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 31 May 2022
  • 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
  • The man then came back with a gun and fired shots at the officer from the parking lot, Rolón said.
    — David Harris, Orlando Sentinel, 29 May 2022
  • The man fired into the motel and at a car that was pulling into the parking lot.
    — Angela Cordoba Perez, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Cars stream out of its drive-through, at times spilling from its parking lot and onto the street.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Athens police were called to the Walmart around 9:40 p.m. on a report of shots fired in the parking lot.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 15 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • He was shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex and pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2022
  • The diners started parking in the school’s parking lot, but eventually the restaurant closed due to the parking problems.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2025
  • Then, detectives found Kevin Akins’ car in the parking lot of another apartment complex, police said.
    — Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 26 May 2025

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