Sentence examples for parking strip from inspiring English sources

Yet there are plenty of other labels listed in the Dictionary of American Regional English: a median strip, a parking strip, a terrace, a boulevard.

The gravel parking strip was nearly empty; it was four o'clock on a Monday afternoon, with three weeks still to go until Halloween.

GARDEN, PARKING STRIP, SIDEWALK CRACKS Plants — from your prize roses to the dandelions in the sidewalk — are excellent places to start, since they won't run away when you photograph them.

A third of the street was blocked off to form the line, though puzzlingly, the entire sidewalk and parking strip was blocked off as well and inaccessible to us.

Again, I was not injured, and was thrown onto the parking strip instead of onto the busy street.

His exotic frontyard and parking strip stand out in his bucolic Burbank neighborhood where most of the homes are fronted by compact green — and brown — lawns.

His designs — on patios, garden paths, parking strips, serpentine walls, steps and fountains — range from abstract to representative.

With parking strips sprouting raised beds, productive gardens replacing lawns, and even a "dating" service called Urban Garden Share that matches up landless gardeners with those willing to share, Seattle has taken Michelle Obama's message of grow your own to heart.

Then the locale was shifted to the park strip along Riverside Drive because it was convenient to the West Side homes of most of the men.

We faced the street, bisected in that area by a park strip and benches where our neighbor, Mrs. Rabinowitz, sat on hot nights, taking note of when we turned our lights out.

During his Travolta-esque period, he cruised Astoria Park strip in "Sweet Sensation," his blindingly white 1982 Eldorado Cadillac; no black leather jackets could rub against its snowy seats.