Sentence examples for storefront stood from inspiring English sources

I sidestepped it deftly, and looked whence it came: In the darkened alcove of a shuttered storefront stood a man with long, wild hair and equally scraggly beard — completely in the buff.

This city's most beloved sports storefront stands today covered in dripping eggs and nasty graffiti.

Historic storefronts stood vacant or burned down.

In a similar count made in July 1987, 18 storefronts stood empty.

But tumbleweeds practically blew through the streets a few years ago when storefronts stood barren.

Two of Main Street's cultural staples, the Capitol Theater and the towering Y.M.C.A., have been closed for longer than some residents can remember, and many storefronts stand empty.

A first-time visitor to Lagos, he says, could be terrified by the sight of the mass of humanity; but it's no different from the Lower East Side of New York a century ago: "Wagons, storefronts, stands, selling, buying and just as exciting".

Late the previous evening, the street corner outside a fake storefront had stood in for the bus depot on a snowy night in Ithaca, New York, and a young actor had portrayed the Tyson of nearly forty years ago: a senior at the Bronx High School of Science who had been summoned to Cornell University by Carl Sagan, at the time the best-known astrophysicist in the world.

Storefronts that stood empty have been renovated to accommodate antique shops.

Gottlieb tenants say that once vacated, empty apartments in their buildings are not being filled, while many storefronts have stood vacant for months.

His storefront fireworks stand in the center of the city is stacked to the ceiling with boxes of Roman candles, firecrackers, noisemakers and cherry bombs.