parking lot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of parking lot
An Americanism dating back to 1920–25
Example Sentences
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In that bitter January darkness of a Manchester elementary school parking lot, several dozen voters clustered in line beside me to get into the gym just as the polls opened.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
On weekends in May, the cars usually spill out of the dirt parking lot at Villa del Sol Sweet Cherry Farms and along both sides of the two-lane road.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Awad and another man -- named as Mansour Kaziha -- drew the gunmen back into the parking lot.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
At a rally in a parking lot outside his campaign headquarters in Florence, Kentucky, on Saturday, Congressman Thomas Massie said that the Republican politicians who joined him had made a brave choice.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
No, he turns into an abandoned parking lot and stops the car haphazardly between two spaces.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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