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How to use mall in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Mall means a pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct. Example: “He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.”

Examples of mall by meaning

nounA pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

  • The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.1950 August 15, Philip Hampson, “Field's Plans 15 to 20 Million Shopping Center for Skokie”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, page 1
  • America′s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.2002, Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn′t, page 179

nounAn enclosed shopping centre.

  • Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.2004, Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don′t Need a Million to Retire Well, unnumbered page

More sentences with mall

  • He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.From the entry shirt
  • The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.From the entry haunt
  • A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.From the entry zed
  • For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.From the entry discount
  • The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.From the entry opener
  • Economic stress has devitalized some shopping malls in the web era.From the entry devitalize
  • At a shopping mall, one can purchase all kinds of consumer goods.From the entry consumer good
  • Flag on the play, I thought we were going to the mall on Sunday?From the entry flag on the play
  • Our teenager has become a mall rat.From the entry rat
  • Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.From the entry cute
  • The new mall should be a major attraction.From the entry attraction
  • So we were at the mall and these two dudes just walk up to us and say "hi".From the entry dude
  • Those teenagers like to hang around the mall.From the entry around
  • We walked a ways from my house to the mall.From the entry ways
  • This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.From the entry showroom
  • Let's play hooky and go to the mall.From the entry hooky
  • "No Liming or Loitering - No Shouting or Loud Noise" (written on a sign in Port of Spain shopping mall).From the entry liming
  • After it closed, the old mall fell into disrepair.From the entry fall into
  • They get some pretty fishy Santas in this mall. The one in the food court right now seems like he might be drunk.From the entry santa
  • Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.From the entry overpass
  • You said we could go to the mall! —Forget it! Look at the state of this room! You're going to stay here and clean up before you go anywhere.From the entry forget it
  • They get some pretty nice chocolate Santas and chocolate Easter Bunnies in this mall. The ones in the food court right now are making me hungry just looking at them.From the entry santa
  • She even splooted in the middle of the mall while waiting to see Santa!2020 November 3, Tama Fortner, “Homecoming Tales”, in 15 Inspiring Stories from Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, Thomas Nelson, page 82. From the entry sploot
  • Hundreds of protesters gathered at New Town Plaza, a multistory shopping mall in the Sha Tin district.2019 September 22, Timothy McLaughlin, Casey Quackenbush, “Hong Kong protesters target Beijing-friendly businesses in latest…. From the entry Sha Tin
  • Howlers make bomb threats to schools, malls, churches, businesses, and government offices.2015, Steve Albrecht, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. From the entry hunter
  • She visited a mall food court, where she glad-handed and chatted with patrons.2014 May 13, Colin Perkel, “Horwath blasts Liberals on auto insurance”, in Hamilton Spectator, Canada, retrieved 22 May 2014. From the entry mainstreeting
  • Now it’s time to go celebrate a bit at the mall mommacita.2014, Nicole Thompson, Love of My Life, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry mommacita
  • As he walked toward the mall he saw flutters of spring everywhere.2013, Charles Finch, An Old Betrayal, St. Martin's Publishing Group, page 57. From the entry flutter
  • The mall was filled with Christmas delight; Mistletoe, holly and Santa were a welcoming sight.2011, Blossom Albuquerque, Dashing Duke and His Dodgy Adventures, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry Santa Paws
  • He ain't looking to get his name in the papers, like some mall psycho,” said Bob.2011, Stephen Hunter, Dead Zero, page 168. From the entry glory boy
  • But while malls killed much of downtown America, they only partially injured New York City.2010, Roberta Brandes Gratz, The Battle for Gotham, page 21. From the entry shell shock
  • Now go to a mall or church or anyplace you can observe families.2009 October 21, Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, Dell, →ISBN. From the entry megaslump
  • They have made themselves into shopping malls with long, banal corridors to and from the gates.2008, Vanity Fair, volume 50, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149, column 1. From the entry kludgily
  • But whyyy was your ex-wife at the mall at the same time we were?!2007, Diane Ladd, Spiraling Through the School of Life: A Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Discovery - Find Your Miracles, Hay House…. From the entry whyyy
  • Expect major mall owners to step up their courting of discounters and big boxes.2006, Stacy Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses, Boston: Beacon…. From the entry big box
  • In cybersavvy Dublin, public-access terminals are in shopping malls, hotels, and hostels throughout the city center.2006, Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Frommer's Ireland from $90 a Day. From the entry cybersavvy
  • Within the malls or neocanons of academia, the art scene, and activism, another mall exists—that of downness.2005, Melinda L. De Jesus, Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, page 145. From the entry downness

Meaning of mall

  1. noun A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
  2. noun An enclosed shopping centre.
  3. noun An alley where the game of pall mall was played.

Full definition of mall

Questions about mall in a sentence

How do you use mall in a sentence?
Mall is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.”
What is a short sentence with mall?
“Our teenager has become a mall rat.”
What does mall mean?
Mall means a pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mall (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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