Sentence examples for block of stores from inspiring English sources

On the Avenida Reforma, near the Paseo Bravo, is a block of stores selling cowboy boots and Western shirts.

The fire also caused smoke damage to an entire block of stores and forced a two-block evacuation of the boardwalk.

This hapless everyman, Koistinen (Janne Hyytiainen), a night watchman for a security company, patrols a block of stores that include a fancy jewelry shop ripe for burglary.

Correction: April 4, 2004, Sunday A front-page article in this section on March 21 about a burned-out block of stores in Sunnyside, Queens, misstated the location of the most severe damage.

The break, which caused no injuries and relatively brief havoc for commuters, created more lasting problems for a few businesses nearby, pouring hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into the basements of a block of stores and an 18-story office building on 14th Street between Broadway and University Place.

Closing those plants also decimated surrounding commercial districts, leaving whole blocks of stores and restaurants vacant.

No big solid buildings to house post offices or municipal offices, no ornamented blocks of stores, built to be noticed.

Ballplayers love to shop on their free afternoons in the States, and many of them found their way to the sprawling electronics district -- blocks and blocks of stores.

Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways.

There is also a trove of liability-protection photographs starting early in the 20th century documenting whole city blocks of stores -- and even their contents -- during the process of tunnel-blasting beneath them, to protect against spurious damage claims.

By Haruki Murakami The New Yorker, March 19 , 2001P. 130 Five straight days she spent in front of the television, staring at crumbled banks and hospitals, whole blocks of stores in flames, severed rail lines and expressways.