What is "storefronts"

Usage examples of "storefronts".

She steps out into the gaudy light and noise of the Bazaar, follows the meandering path between the heaped icons and the crude-drawn storefronts that lie behind the piles of advertising, and is aware again of the negative icon following her.

She made her way past the closed storefronts, their windows protected by metal grills or heavier solid shutters.

Across the street, in the other arcade, a skinny kid in jeans and a sweatshirt came out of one of the storefronts, began sweeping sand off the boardwalk into the street.

Parcade was quieter even than she had anticipated, half the storefronts still metal-shuttered even though opening time had come and gone.

She risks a backward glance, sees the storefronts fading, faintly translucent, a hint of the white light shining through.

Other cops were fanning out from the roadblock, moving along the storefronts to shut down the businesses and force the citizens indoors.

The storefronts of Mack Avenue passed by, more than a few closed up, windows soaped over.

She concentrated on the storefronts as they passed, trying to see them through unfamiliar eyes.

Lowered steel gratings, bedecked with graffiti, covered the closed ground-floor storefronts, while unspooled razor wire ran along the edges of the rooftops, discouraging prowlers.

All of the storefronts had long since been looted, and not a bit of intact glass could be seen anywhere.

Thousands of tiny storefronts offered their brightly colored wares to the millions of thronging pedestrians.

The storefronts were dark, and the diagonal parking places were empty except for a few pickup trucks in front of a tavern near the park.

He found it hard to believe that this world of scalded blue sky, flat white storefronts, and empty highway could coexist with the monsoon mud, endless slums, and crowded insanity of India.

Baedecker could close his eyes and almost recapture the flickering images, the faces of the farm families sitting on benches, blankets, and new-mown grass, the sounds of children running through the bushes near the bandstand and climbing trees, and at least once, memorably, the silent flashes of heat lightning rippling above trees and storefronts, coming closer, the heavy branches of the elms dancing to the breeze fleeing before the coming storm.

Boulevard, feeding into the north side of its median strip which was lined on both sides with spectators, many of them packed up against storefronts on the far side of the street.